Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters

  • Scott Rosenberg | Scott Rosenberg

Blogs are everywhere. They have exposed truths and spread rumors. Made and lost fortunes. Toppled cabinet members and sparked grassroots movements. Immediate, intimate and influential, they have put the power of personal publishing into everyone’s hands. Before blogs it was easy to believe that the Web would grow up to be a clickable TV—slick, passive, mass market. Instead, blogging brought the Web’s native character into focus: convivial, expressive, democratic. Far from being pajama-clad loners, bloggers have become the curators of our collective experience, testing ideas in front of the crowd and linking people in ways broadcasts can’t match. Blogs have created a new public sphere—one in which we can think out loud together. What will blogging become in the future?

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Scott Rosenberg is a journalist, editor and blogger. He was a co-founder of Salon.com and an early participant in The Well. His first book was the bestselling Dreaming in Code:Two Dozen programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs and One Quest for Transcendent Software.Recent article about Scott:Salon Co-Founder Receives Knight Grant to Create Forum for Journos to Admit Their ErrorsBayNewser – San Francisco, CA, USAHe’s the author of two books: Dreaming in Code and Say Everything: How … On his blog, Rosenberg writes he’ll be starting the pilot project in the Bay Area …The full schedule of upcoming talks in the Microsoft Research Visiting Speaker Series is available here: http://sharepoint/sites/visitingspeaker/default.aspx

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