Comments on: The revolution is over, the bloggers won http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2008/11/12/the-revolution-is-over-the-bloggers-won/ Trevor Cook on public relations, social media and politics Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:16:29 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: The revolution is over, the bloggers won http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2008/11/12/the-revolution-is-over-the-bloggers-won/comment-page-1/#comment-2880 The revolution is over, the bloggers won Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:50:52 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/?p=4994#comment-2880 [...] good friend and ace thinker Trevor Cook recently highlighted how the ‘blogging is dead’ meme is… well… [...]

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]]> By: Kevin Rennie http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/2008/11/12/the-revolution-is-over-the-bloggers-won/comment-page-1/#comment-2774 Kevin Rennie Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:09:34 +0000 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/trevorcook/?p=4994#comment-2774 Evolution not over Blogs are also <strong>free</strong> websites. I started my site as a very novice blogger in July 2007. A clear focus and a lot of naivete helped sustain it, plus the time generated by retirement from the paid workforce. Most of the debates about the death of blogging miss the point. The web is what you make of it and take from it. It was never a revolution, just evolution. The linking of blogging/websites with social media facespace sites and multi-media has been one aspect of the changing webscape. Many of us had a ball last week live blogging Obamania on sites like crikey and <a href="http://voiceswithoutvotes.org/" rel="nofollow">Voices without Votes</a>. I used to joke when I travelled overseas about being a citizen of the world. Now anyone can be that and even a cit journalist of the world as well. Evolution not over

Blogs are also free websites. I started my site as a very novice blogger in July 2007. A clear focus and a lot of naivete helped sustain it, plus the time generated by retirement from the paid workforce.

Most of the debates about the death of blogging miss the point. The web is what you make of it and take from it. It was never a revolution, just evolution. The linking of blogging/websites with social media facespace sites and multi-media has been one aspect of the changing webscape.

Many of us had a ball last week live blogging Obamania on sites like crikey and Voices without Votes. I used to joke when I travelled overseas about being a citizen of the world. Now anyone can be that and even a cit journalist of the world as well.

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