Lock, Stack and Bytes

And I thought that people started talking about blogs recently! Well, it so happens that exactly five years ago on this day, Mr. Scott Rosenberg (currently Managing Editor at Salon.com) was making a very strong and passionate case about the utility of weblogs in his technology column “Fear of links“. The column, generally speaking, was a criticism of the reasons that made professional journalists look down upon their Web journalist counterparts.

They’re fulfilling the predictions by Internet visionaries of the
rise of a new breed of personal journalism online — only instead
of pounding the physical pavement, they forage for news on the Net
itself.

And then, of course, there were his views on weblogs. Five years ago. Well, I can almost see Mr. Rosenberg looking down upon all those “professional” journalists and giving them a I-said-so look. But going by his writings, he doesn’t seem to be a self-congratulating kind of a person.

- Rajesh