Comments on: The trend toward corporate control of blogging http://steinbaugh.com/journal/blogging-control/ University of Michigan Cellular and Molecular Biology graduate student. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Matt http://steinbaugh.com/journal/blogging-control/#comment-749 Matt Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://mike.steinbaugh.com/?p=414#comment-749 <p>I do beleive the weblog world has been told. Get em' Mike!</p> I do beleive the weblog world has been told. Get em’ Mike!

]]> By: Bram Abramson http://steinbaugh.com/journal/blogging-control/#comment-750 Bram Abramson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://mike.steinbaugh.com/?p=414#comment-750 <p>The historic parallel is when AOL added Usenet to its services -- brought a sudden massive influx of users at a time when the Internet was smaller and AOL was reviled among existing users as clueless newbies.</p> <p>That said, these are the mixed blessings of success, no? What will be interesting is what mechanisms people are able to create to keep blogs interesting (and to keep being able to read them) when everyone -- well, lots of folks -- have them. One of the nice things about blogs is their bootstrappableness. So hopefully users will be able to come up with solutions. (Spoken as a johnny-come-lately blogger, by the way.)</p> The historic parallel is when AOL added Usenet to its services — brought a sudden massive influx of users at a time when the Internet was smaller and AOL was reviled among existing users as clueless newbies.

That said, these are the mixed blessings of success, no? What will be interesting is what mechanisms people are able to create to keep blogs interesting (and to keep being able to read them) when everyone — well, lots of folks — have them. One of the nice things about blogs is their bootstrappableness. So hopefully users will be able to come up with solutions. (Spoken as a johnny-come-lately blogger, by the way.)

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