It is becoming incredibly easy for anyone to publish text, images (drawn or photographed) and movies for a global audience. Publishing at this stage is free but what will happen when there are people who want to be prominent but who want to do it the fast way i.e. by paying a distributor to be highlighted. Then we're back at Square One again: evil pubisher pays best authors to own their articles and make them artificially prominent...other writers are then forced to pay.
The Blogger payment model is interesting as it is a new form of curruption, prominence is gained through product placement i.e. blogs that well read need to compromise readership with mentioning products. Of course this is the age old problem of selling out but famous products will gain readers.
But seriously at the moment we are living in a golden time, anyone can put their words, images and movies online for free. Through creating links and posting comments we can build up a community network around ourselves. There are big bloggers with reputations and small bloggers adding numbers. All the elements of traditional knowledge amplification are evident.
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