Unleashed: The revolution may not be blogged

Unleashed: The revolution may not be blogged.

Social media evangelists extoll a modern 'david and goliath' fable where the old, ossified institutions of media, government and business are forced to their knees by millions of people tapping away on keyboards.

They believe that our big institutions will have to become open, transparent and accountable or they will crumble like so many Berlin walls unable to withstand the internet-empowered populace's thirst for freedom.

Or they used to believe it. Doubt is emerging. Now we have the 'disappearing blogger' phenomenon. It seems the dream that sprang from the tech labs of California a decade ago and spread around the world, might be losing its remarkable impetus.

Read the rest and tell me I'm wrong ...

Comments

[Bob Meade]

I love that Gil Scott Heron ref. An interesting period of social upheaval.

Obviously (according to one opinion) you will need to brush up your English when you write your thesis, or at least get a good proof reader.

On your main thrust - you are correct. The blogging ship of fashionability and coolness has sailed. But I'll keep doing it. As an amateur, I do it for love, not money.