Jan
29
2005
My Take on the Blog Business Summit in Seattle
Author: robertinseattleWow! I went to the Blog Business Summit early this week on Monday and Tuesday. It was serendipitous that it was held in
There’s little doubt that there’s been a tremendous amount of buzz building around blogs and blogging these days. Especially with all the traditional media attention coming out of the last election. Many of the attendees and speakers have been at it for quite some time already. For me, it’s another fascinating phase in the evolution of high tech (is that a passé term this day?). I remember discussing my own recollections of real movable type (lead type, NOT the blog program for all you kids out there!). Leaded type eventually gave way to phototypesetting equipment used for layout in paste-up for publishing. Eventually all of this gave way to a new revolution called desktop publishing as originally pioneered by Apple with the MAC. So we finally get to this point and what happens? We end up having a defining blogging moment when Dan Rather and CBS introduced phony documents into the presidential election that turned out to be generated on a computer-based word processor with super- and subscript that a regular typewriter out of that period could not have produced! The bloggers were all over this one and traditional media followed. All this in a relatively-short span of about 15 years or so.
