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Wednesday, May 11, 2005Jarvis is looking (yet again) at blogs, citizens, media, etc. Specifically, he's looking at Jon Stewart's shots at blog segments on television.Wish I had some good observations, but... I don't have television. Living in the mountains, I almost went crazy over the lack of television... for nearly two weeks. Somehow, though, I've survived two years without Survivor, FoxNews and all the other fun stuff. It's actually kind of nice. I do watch the web broadcasts on CSPAN for major presidential addresses and that sort of thing. Sometimes I'll even run the audio feed in the background while working on other things. That's my big media. It's all online. Jarvis is concerned with how to get podcasts to the media, yada yada yada. Why not cut 'em out of it? We've got our own sites, our own ads... if we're willing to pay for the bandwidth (I'm not) we can have video. As bloggers, it's fun to dream about being television stars someday, and not just guys in pajamas. But if you look at the numbers, this internet thing is cutting into tv viewing as well as newspaper readership. So, when does citizen media go all the way? Forget about getting your blog read on air by the folks at MSNBC. I'm waiting for the day when there's a fire in Dubuque, your Aunt Bessie lives there, and your first instinct isn't to see whether it's big enough for CNN to cover, but whether your Aunt Bessie has posted anything. Yeah, nothing much is going to happen in ninety percent of the world - at least the part of the world that people with the resources to be bloggers inhabit (electricity, phone or DSL, computer), but the ultimate check on the media comes when the old fashioned word of mouth about how the town paper isn't playing the story straight goes high tech and the world of blogs starts supplanting big media because the blog gives the feeling that someone you "know" lives there. 
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