Gulker on Media Democratization: an essay from this past June. "The democratization wrought by printing, which brought book publishing costs down by at least an order of magnitude by the 19th century, dramatically contributed to accelerating change in a world that had progressed only slowly for the 2000 previous years.
The new democratization of publishing has seen at least a similar reduction in costs: Web servers and phenomena like Weblogging have reduced the cost of publishing to essentially free. I think its very likely that this will create change as profound as it did the first time. Ideas like Jim Moore's 2nd Superpower are just the beginning. The unquestioning pack journalism so visible among 'legit' media during the recent Iraq excursion, is another - and will increasingly be the reason people turn to the Net for news, and more importantly, informed analysis and opinion." It's going to be a wild, and very interesting, ride...
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