The Wardman Wire

Cartoon: Gaping Void

Hugh:

The big story is not about blogging. It’s not about Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Friendfeed or whatever. And it certainly is not about Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton or whatever so-called “A-Lister” you care you mention.

Yes, again, it’s all about what Clay Shirky said four years ago, in a wonderful interview he did for Gothamist:

“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this — the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

And again:

CheapEasyGlobal is the big story. And it’s here now. It has arrived. And it’s permanent. And there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it, save for a nuclear holocaust.

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