All The News That's Fit To Blog? Not Yet, But Maybe Soon: Blogging and social networking may or may not change the face of traditional media as we know it. But [...] the impact of both is already being felt up and down the media food chain. [...]
As keen as the panelists were about the future of blogging and social networking, a host of concerns were also noted. Blogger Clay Shirky worried about scale issues. "You can't make a dinner party for six into a dinner party for 60 and keep the intimacy," he explained. "You have to find a way of subdividing the audience." Smith also noted a huge potential downside to the proliferation of blogs: "You only listen to people you want to hear."
