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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

People blog, but who's going to write?


People are sharing more and more through blogs and services like Buzz.  I feel someday I may tell my children, "when I was your age we had to create content for our webpages.  Not just regurgitate someone else's ideas."

I like sharing things I find in order to start a dialouge.  Though its getting to the point where someone will have one good thought and then it is shared on countless blogs.  This may be a good thing.  You could look at is as greater distribution for good ideas.  But will kids grow up looking for things to share on their blog or facebook page instead of creating material?  Will potential young authors be distracted by blogging and not learn how to write?

This may be a cynical way of looking at it.  I just don't want the creation of content to follow in the steps of print media.