Salon.com Technology | Use the blog, Luke
“The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times—but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web’s infinity of links.”
An article from May 2002, but timely still today. Read more…
By Steven Johnson | May 10, 2002
Nearly eight years after Justin Hall uploaded his first hypertext diary entry, weblogging has finally hit the mainstream. Everyone seems to have a published opinion on this not-so-new new thing, and if the attention seems a little belated, it’s not undeserved.
After all, a number of significant developments separate us from pioneering sites like Links From the Underground or Robot Wisdom: The blogging population itself has grown dramatically, and has begun organizing itself into a genuine community rather than a series of isolated sites; software tools have been built specifically to let noncoders create and maintain blogs; and the universe of potential pages to link to has expanded by several orders of magnitude since Hall launched his site. There’s simply more Web to log, and consequently more need for experienced guides.
