What blogs are and what they are not

Les Blogs finished with Doc Searls discussing "What blogs are and what they are not". Arguing blogs are "writing" and should be thought of as a form of speech (which can be free) rather than media (which needs to be managed). Key comments included:

Blogs are by readers and writers for other readers and writers
Blogs inform - they don't just deliver information (content)
Blogs are authors of each other
The Blogosphere is a growing meritocracy not just a democracy

Doc has posted the slides of his presentation. Well worth reviewing.

Feedback on Les Blogs here and here where Matthew Gertner views blogs as the future of journalism noting that eventually the notion of the blog will disappear, to be replaced by what preceded it: plain old articles of news and opinion - some good some bad, some free some pricey.