I ran across this cartoon in the Tobias Escher’s excellent blog at the Oxford Internet Institute:
Besides the fact that it is funny and kinda true, does anything strike you? The date maybe? 2005!
That’s right 2005!
Maybe somebody should send this to Christie Blatchford the next time she decides to belittle bloggers and journalists who blog (aren’t they becoming one and the same?) in her article: I’m not blogging this, mark my words.
Christie Blatchford could be one of the last of a dying breed. As text moves from being something we scribble or type out on paper to electronic information to be retransmitted and associated to other electronic media, those who uphold stringent definitions of ‘types of journalism’ by association to a particular medium may well be on their way out as all information becomes electronic.
To a certain extent the turmoil we are seeing in the TV, newspaper and traditional recording industries, could be interpreted as the passions of various practitioners hanging on to their respective favorite media crucifix instead of just giving in to the painful, but inevitable digital transformation to come.
