Blogging hits the mainstream

SFGate.com ^ | Monday, July 22, 2002 | mailto:joyce@sfgate.com

[glorgau]

San Francisco, California, USA -- When the news hit the blogging world that professors at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism plan to teach a class on blogging this fall, reaction among bloggers was dramatic, to say the least.

"Mark my words, this is going to be the Altamont of the blogging movement; they will destroy everything good about it," pouted one blogging enthusiast on Daily Pundit. Another ranted on Slashdot that it "smells like college teachers are just looking for things to make them 'Hip' and 'in the know' ... it will last a few years till the fad dies down, then it will be tossed into your Local Junior College's Adult education class catalog, right under 'Potery' [sic]."

[glorgau]

This is what Free republic is all about!!!!

[glorgau]

Also, it is my very first article posting - hope I did it right.

[TomGuy]

The internet let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.

It made it easy to stay aware of things that are taking place. In a way, the internet is the most democratic device ever created. No matter how any one self-interest group tries to control and subvert it, the creative ones find ways around the control and subversion.

It is filled with good and bad, but it allows the individual to sort and select. It is comparable to Pandora's Box.

Ideas can spread faster on the internet than the media can contain them. It's great.

[gcruse]

You did a perfect job. And welcome to the unlurked!

[an amused spectator]

Great first post. And I've seen a few of them... ;-)