The future of blogs and their influence

Here's an article discussing the ways in which blogs have evolved since the last Presidential election and the ways in which they are likely to influence the dissemination of information. Here is one grass-roots way:

to see the future of blogging, it might be best to look beyond the election. Here are a couple of examples. One is this blog on the Foresight nanotechnology conference last weekend, with "live" accounts of the speeches, powerpoint slides, and even video interviews mixed in. (And although I don't know the blogger, Adam Keiper, he says he was inspired in part by my efforts to promote this sort of thing: "I'm going to try to test the limits and usefulness of liveblogging, or newsblogging, or conferenceblogging (an unwieldy neologism). Professor Glenn Reynolds, the InstaPundit, among others, has pushed the concept of bloggers as news collectors, and I hope to put that idea to the test. So this is a sort of media experiment, too.") I'd call it a success: Equipped with no more than a laptop computer and an inexpensive digital still camera that also shoots video, Keiper provided more comprehensive coverage than most newspapers could have -- and certainly more comprehensive coverage than any actually did. This is the kind of thing I hope to see more of.

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