The real threat of blogs

“I believe that the most dangerous thing about blogs to the status quo is that so many of them exist for reasons other than to make money,” says author Douglas Rushkoff. “A thriving community of people who are engaged for free, to me, have a certain authority that people doing things for money don’t….

“The greatest power of the blog is not just its ability to distribute alternative information – a great power, indeed – but its power to demonstrate a mode of engagement that is not based on the profit principle.”

September 14, 2004 by
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COMMENTS

  • The One True b!X

    Heh. Be that as it may, some of us would like to not have to stop doing what we are doing with weblogs in a couple of months, which will happen precisely because we can’t afford to continue doing it.

  • Jim Larson

    Blogs may have great promise as an alternative source of information, but so far they don’t contain much information.