that several liberal bloggers now want a union.It seems to me that the bloggers who want to unionize are missing the point of new media. The beauty of new media (read: "internet") is that it is made up of unorganized people, available to be the voice of the people, not of a group to which the author is obligated.
Or, perhaps it's just a sense of entitlement.
But the "blogosphere" is organic, limitless, endless, and totally different. You can't try to put the Internet into the same boxes the newspapers fit in.
I suppose this is the same across the Internet; You can't look at it the same way.
It is global, not local.
It is always changing, never the same.
It is the harnessing of impersonal technology for interpersonal community.
It's a whole new way of thinking. Many of us who have or want websites think of them in old ways that don't actually fit.
I've heard that you can't put new wine in old wineskins. I think the principle sticks. Principles never change, but methods and ways of processing and reaching the world are changing faster than ever.
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