Et pip der ikke bliver hørt

Seth Finkelstein forsøger under overskriften “If you want to change the world, a blog may not be the place to start” at tage luften ud af myter om bloggernes kolossale indflydelse.

“Contrary to blog evangelism, blogging can sometimes even be detrimental in terms of building influence. That’s counterintuitive, since the very rare person who achieves substantial influence via a blog is often widely touted as a success story.
But the complementary outcome is not widely publicised – that is, all the people who are blogging their hearts out and never being heard beyond a tiny fan audience.”

… og videre:

“As one activist lamented regarding a censorware controversy: “I think the real lesson here is that, despite all the hype, blogs have not solved the ‘gatekeeper’ problem. It’s no longer true that a handful of media giants control what people get to find out about, but it’s still true that an issue doesn’t become an ‘issue’, and has a hard time entering the public consciousness, unless it gets noticed by one of the new ‘gatekeepers of information’. People have been complaining about wrong blocks by SmartFilter for nine freaking years, and suddenly BoingBoing [boingboing.net, a very popular website] gets blocked and it’s in the New York Times!”"

(Via Lisnews)