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Dvorak still not getting it, Gillmor answers

This is pretty interesting, if nothing else perhaps we will finally get an answer to what blogging is good for. ;)

John Dvorak has (again) decided to speak out on the hopelessness of blogging, which he sees as a dying fad.

Steve Gillmor takes a stand and answers back. Notice the interesting breadcrumb at top of the eWeek article page...

Dvorak:

Blogs, or Web logs, are all the rage in some quarters. We're told that blogs will evolve into a unique source of information and are sure to become the future of journalism. Well, hardly. Two things are happening to prevent such a future: The first is wholesale abandonment of blog sites, and the second is the casual co-opting of the blog universe by Big Media.

Gillmor:

The dirty little secret Mr. Dvorak is ignoring is that blogs (and more profoundly, RSS) have changed the dynamics of professional journalism, not by replacing it, but informing it with the authentic voices of the creators of the technology while it's being created. This can be uncomfortable for the embedded media -- witness John Markoff's reluctance to handicap blogging's survival long-term in a recent story for the New York Times.

This quote from Gillmor in my opinion says it all:

"It's no coincidence that the most-read blogs are created by professional writers," Dvorak warns. And this: "So much for the independent thinking and reporting that are supposed to earmark blog journalism." Here's a test you can try at home: take the word blog out of the last quote.

PCMag.com, Dvorak: Co-opting the Future

eWeek: Gillmor Takes On Dvorak's Anti-Blog Stance

eWeek Forum: Dvorak and Gillmor battles it out

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