'The future of Weblogging' Nico Macdonald, The Register, 18 April 2004

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There is much to celebrate in the development of Weblogging, but the discussion of the phenomenon is often uncritical and un-ambitious. If Weblogging is the answer, what was the question? No one admits it, but it is in part a product of our confessional culture. The dynamics behind Weblogging are not as contemporary as the phenomenon itself, and its rise is partly the result of other products re-defining themselves as Weblogging tools. Talk of democratising publishing is belied by an elitist tendency at the centre of the blogosphere. We need to encourage more people to be journalists, and go beyond the temporal model that is core to Weblogging. And we need to find more subtle, more visual, and more contextualised ways of presenting Weblog postings. It may also be possible to use the characteristics of Weblogging to create discussion in the context of online publications.

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