HW 14: Response to Denton

As I was reading through Nick Denton's interview, I realized that I agreed with him on a lot of his key points. For instance, Denton explains that everyone seems to think that weblogs are a completely breathtaking invention to technology, when really it's just an extension on what has always been happening online. After all, weblogs have been around for a while before becoming socially noticed. Nevertheless, weblogs will most likely explode and adopt a much larger audience and come up with new uses. Along the same lines, Denton talks about how weblogs are important in the news and will soon have numerous ways for you to receive what you want to know faster; he explains, " Just as TiVo allows television watchers to make their own channel, so will weblogs allow individual users to make their own "newspaper"". Even though newspapers will never be replaced by weblogs, I believe that the two will have a big part in news for a long time. To put it bluntly Denton states, " while I don't think blogs are going to change the structure of original reporting, they are going to supplant in some ways the editorial layer of the news". In conclusion, I think that Denton has some great points in his interview that most people do not touch on when talking about weblogs.