With 300 celebrities and other bloggers, journalist Arianna Huffington is launching a new kind of online publication that could change the blogosphere, but also traditional journalism
There is still the hype about bloggers, who are supposed to change, if not revolutionize, journalism, the public sphere and the flow of information. And as it always does, what was once avant-garde, or at least innovative, and brought a new, initially not primarily commercial, moment into play, "disarmed", when it is stylized into a fashion and imitated by the masses. Plotzlich mussenen alle bloggen, so irgendwie etwas ein bisschen Subjektive einigermaben kontinuierlich von sich geben, weil das fur Aufmerksamkeit sorgt und moglich auch Geld einbringt. You don’t want to miss anything.
What was once said by "below" or at least carried this myth with it – and was also impressive because of the passion of the followers, who select and evaluate the global information and communication streams in their own way, enter new information or draw the public’s attention to certain topics, will be eroded in its dynamics when it is no longer just the "Nobodies" (Rankism), but the celebrities and attention professionals penetrated in.