Blogosphere Gets NYT Nod

In an editorial, The New York Times gives a nice acknowledgement of blogs. Read the whole editorial but here’s the last lines:

It’s natural enough to think of the growth of the blogosphere as a merely technical phenomenon. But it’s also a profoundly human phenomenon, a way of expanding and, in some sense, reifying the ephemeral daily conversation that humans engage in. Every day the blogosphere captures a little more of the strange immediacy of the life that is passing before us. Think of it as the global thought bubble of a single voluble species.

It would be a lie to say the blogosphere has been waiting for this. It’s nice to be noticed. Moreso, it’s nice that the mainstream media (the king of the MSM no less) has decided to grace us with their acknowledgement. What was it? Was it the bloggers exposé of Dan Rather’s fraud last October? Was it the fact that Howard Dean, prior to his political collapse in the presidential primaries, built his groundswell of saupport by supporters using blogs? (Disclaimer: I am using political blog references because the NYT is a defacto political entity, as are most media outlets).

In other words, thanks for the recognition. We’ll just go back and do what we do and that is write for our readers and let the viral marketing that is the blogosphere be our guiding light, and you go back to doing what you do and that is providing fodder for us to chomp on.

Thanks, NYT!

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About the Author: Aaron Brazell is the lead editor of Technosailor.com and a social media expert. His passion is to see companies and individuals use the internet and web technologies wisely and effectively to promote their brands and companies. He served as Director of Technology at b5media from 2005-2008 and is currently an independent consultant.