02002-02007 (5 years): In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site. - Long Bets. As with personal computing, the early days of Web publishing belonged to the hobbyists, reveling that it worked at all.
But the Web is maturing, the tools are getting easy, as the understanding of the technology has become widespread. Serious professional journalists use the new tools, moonlighting, publishing the news they don't or can't sell to the big publications who employ them. At the same time, we're returning to what I call amateur journalism, people writing for the public for the love of writing, without any expectation of financial compensation. This process is fed by the changing economics of the publishing industry which is employing fewer reporters, editors and writers. But the Web has taught us to expect more information, not less, and that's the sea-change that the NY Times and other big publications face -- how to remain relevant in the face of a population that can do for themselves what the BigPubs won't.
Mono Match. Sinuous - An HTML5 canvas game. Avoid the red dots! The Wiki Game - 'Wikipedia Game' - Explore and race through Wikipedia!