Wired has this week published an excellent essay about the changes we have seen in the blogosphere in recent years, with the central premise being that the blog is now ‘dead’. That is to say that the time of true blogging, in the sense of a DIY non-commercial method of mass communication that offered the levelest playing field for all voices alike, has well and truly passed.
The Times online responded with the more moderate view that blogging has merely changed, though this view seems a little superficial when one considers the degree of fundamental difference between modern web 2.0 blogging - and the ‘old school’ approach of four or five years ago.
The Wired article is pretty straightforward in its assessment of…