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Software Programming Guru Joel Spolsky wrote his final “Joel on Software” blog post last week, leading some to wonder whether blogging was going the way of hot metal typesetting. Award-winning journalist and Salon.com co-founder Scott Rosenberg doesn’t think so:
Blogging emerged and continues to thrive because it gives us something our old institutions and practices can’t. Its combination of immediacy and archival persistence uniquely exploits the web’s native qualities in ways older-fashioned publications are still trying to match. Its near-zero cost of publishing and distribution means that anyone can do it.
That enables individuals to project their words in the public sphere without needing to work for a media company or stand on a platform controlled by someone else. And it allows writers to mix up the personal and professional at will.pbs.org, Idea Lab, Mar 2010
Read the entire article here.
Read more from Scott Rosenberg.
Joel Spolsky explains why blogging is now holding him back in this article from Inc. magazine.
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