In an OJR article: A Look Back at 2003, and What's on the Horizon for the Online News Universe, Mark Glaser reflects on his predictions for 2003 regarding, among other things, weblogs and blogging, and then offers up some predictions for 2004.
One of Mark's 2003 predictions was that "smart bloggers get their due, become famous, and can get paid for what they do. Media companies get it, and start assigning blogs as real jobs and not just extracurricular activities." Mark reflects that "Now a month doesn't go by without another media company announcing new Weblogs -- Fast Company, MSNBC.com, Variety.com, Wired Magazine, New York Magazine."
Read the article, it has an interesting Q&A section with a diverse array of opinions on - "the proliferation of people with camera phones breaking spot news stories; the rise of Google and Google News; the soap opera at (AOL) Time Warner; the continued inroads of paid content; RSS feeds; massive online coverage of the war in Iraq; viruses, worms and spam overwhelming newsrooms; the struggle for independent news in Zimbabwe, China, Iran and Iraq; and political rhetoric and election coverage." - among other things.
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