Sunday, April 03, 2005

Blogging from East to West

Blogging from East to West, David Reid

"What should we make of blogging? Is it simply the latest internet fad, a truly democratic tool for change or, as some have suggested, a vehicle for mob rule? David Reid finds blogs are rocking the boat both East and West."

BBC Online, Fri April 1st 2005

Friday, April 01, 2005

Blogging Beyond the Men's Club

"Blogging Beyond the Men's Club"
Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?
by Steven Levy, Newsweek Technology & Science, 21-3-05

"It has taken 'mainstream media' a very long time to get to [the] point of inclusion," Jenkins wrote. "My fear is that the overwhelmingly white and male American blogosphere ... will return us to a day where the dialogue about issues was a predominantly white-only one."

"The top-down mainstream media have to some degree found the will and the means to administer such care. But is there a way to promote diversity online, given the built-in decentralization of the blog world? "