Is blogging over?

Posted at 2:10 PM on September 26, 2006 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

The Financial Times says so:

When the world’s least fashionable political party discovers a social trend, it is surely a sign that it is peaking.

... and...

A political consultant once complained that his bosses’ reliance on focus groups handed power to people who were prepared to sit around for hours talking about politics with strangers, in return for a free sandwich. Similarly if politics is increasingly shaped by the blogosphere, it will mean more power and influence for a sub-section of the population willing to waste hours trawling through dross on the internet.

Shoot. What am I doing to do now? Radio?

Comments (2)

Its ending in Minnesota too right now, Please update all of your comments concerning MDE as the one of the top paid Kennedy Staffers: http://powerliberal.blogspot.com/2006/09/where-blogger-ends-and-paid-consultant.html

Posted by NorthernDebater | September 26, 2006 3:43 PM

In typical elite fashion, the dinosaur media outlet Financial Times has completely missed the point of blogs. Blogs are not a focus group or a social class. Unlike the news-and-entertainment, print and broadcast media, which is dominated by the political left, the blogosphere is a diverse and democratic mob that cuts across social and political boundaries, a digital vox populi. If politicians stop listening to blogs, they might as well, like aristocrats, stop "trawling through the dross" of constituent letters and e-mails, and stop reading letters-to-the-editor in their hometown newspapers. As for the masses, let them eat cake!

Posted by Matt Abe | September 27, 2006 1:33 PM

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