Just Another Blog
Monday, April 01, 2002
 
Looking Back on Blogs

In September 2000, Rebecca Blood wrote this article on the history of blogging. Heck, she had even written a book on it by then. In the article she quotes Greg Ruggerio from Immediast Underground.
Media is a corporate possession...You cannot participate in the media. Bringing that into the foreground is the first step. The second step is to define the difference between public and audience. An audience is passive; a public is participatory. We need a definition of media that is public in its orientation.
I am not sure that the media has become more public in its orientation, but web-logging has certainly helped to make sure that more of the audience is now part of the participatory public.