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Words with Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow is a self-confessed renaissance geek. He works mainly as a freelance writer, but also contributes to one of the world's most popular weblogs, Boing Boing. His short story, Craphound, was published in the March 1998 Science Fiction Age, and since then he has published numerous short stories, articles and a popular novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. He has also co-written The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Science-Fiction with novelist Karl Schroeder. In his nonexistent spare time, he travels. He is also a self-confessed urban bicycle terrorist; a chain-smoker; a former ad-copywriter; a left-wing political agnostic; a movie-freak and a Canadian snob. He lives in London. 
Posted on Wednesday 2 June 2004  The Copydesk: What do you think needs to happen to weblogs in order for them to permeate further into the mainstream media? Cory Doctorow: Do weblogs need to permeate further into the mainstream media? I think the question should be: what needs to happen to the mainstream media to make it more like weblogs? There is clearly a lot of value in the immediacy of a weblog, both in terms of the prose style, which tends to be less 'inverted-pyramid' and more like the info-nugget, back-page, news-in-brief, sections of newspapers all over the world - which seems to be uniquely well adapted to the attention span theatre that is the early 21st century. On the other hand, the participatory nature of weblogs, whether that's through a comments section, or the more technologically advanced systems like trackback, Technorati or RSS syndication, helps disseminate and evolve a story in the same way the mainstream media does. I can only imagine that the mainstream media will eventually adopt these methods more in the future. Weblogs are cool in terms of the mainstream media because they've blazed a trail in respect of new tools and methods of reporting or consuming a story, but I don't think the objective of webloggers is to be accepted or integrated with the mainstream media. Instead, weblogs tell us what the story will look like in five or ten years' time; it will be participatory, brief, and touched on by many hands. The idea will not be to catalogue every single facet of the story, but to understand it, which is well-suited to our era. For more about Cory Doctorow, visit his weblog Boing Boing |
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