At Wordcamp 2007, John C. Dvorak and Om Malik spoke to a group of roughly 200 people about the nature of blogging. Dvorak argued that journalism and blogging are basically the same, but Malik insisted that blogging has redefined journalism.
He said that only a few years ago, mainstream media had control of the wires. They delivered the newspaper to your front door, and set the agenda for you. Now, in 2007, it’s so easy for anyone to be a news publisher, and it’s virtually free. This has rapidly changed media.
The media giants are now competing with hundreds of thousands of YouTubers and WordPressers. And content is king. Just a simple blog post like should only take five minutes.
Dvorak joked that,
“Even silly pictures of cats pay the bills”.
