OJR article: For Pioneers of Web Journalism, the Future Is Still Full of Surprises
...Christopher Barr: Weblogs, or something very similar, were dreamed up more than 100 years ago by Jules Verne. In his 1890 futuristic "A Day in the Life of an American Journalist in 2890," he predicted that instead of being printed, every morning the news is spoken directly (IM'd?) to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, learn the news of the day. Each subscriber owns a recorder (hard disk?) to gather the news if he doesn't want to listen to it himself.
Although he was off by 890 years, Verne accurately predicted that people would want to get the news as unvarnished as possible. Weblogs are good devices for encouraging conversation, although they are still in very early development and usage. I expect to see them become more useful and more sophisticated in the next decade...
Making Blogs More Than Just What's for Dinner (TechNews.com)
By Ellen McCarthy
...Meg Hourihan, co-creator of Blogger, the blogging tool acquired by Google, and co-author of "We Blog: Publishing Online With Weblogs," believes that businesses are only beginning to realize the capabilities of instant publishing...
Mentioned in this article:
Debbie Weil, Bill Kearney, Meg Hourihan, Scott Knowles, Gary Price, Macromedia, Fast Company, Gartner, New Media Society, NITLE Weblog Census, BLOGGER, Google, and Jupiter Research
Wired News: Website: Westerners Pretty Rich
by Leander Kahney
...A new website, the Global Rich List, starkly illustrates the worldwide distribution of wealth...Since going live last Monday, the site has attracted 120,000 unique visitors. It has earned a few brief mentions in the press -- the London Guardian, USA Today -- but most traffic has come from word of mouth, weblogs and newsgroups...
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