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Thursday 28 May 2009

The experiences of the early bloggers prefigured every one of the dilemmas that we are encountering today, as we move more and more of our lives online and as new technologies — broadband to the home, wireless, digital cameras, cell phones and other handheld devices, YouTube video — keep extending the Web’s reach. Blogging, the first form of social media to be widely adopted beyond the world of technology enthusiasts, gave us a template for all the other forms that would follow. Through its lens, people could see the Web for the first time as something they were collectively building. It gave a multitude of formerly private people a public voice. It handed them a blank page and said: Learn. Learn what happens when you take strangers into your confidence. Learn what happens when you betray a confidence. See how it works when you find a lover online. See what happens when you tell the world that you’ve broken up. Find a job with your blog. Get fired from your job because of something you wrote on your blog. Expose media misinformation. Spread some misinformation of your own. Then take everything that you’ve learned and post it. Scott Rosenberg

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