Online viewers the world over were inundated with live, up to the second footage and news items channel to their computer screens, literally as it unfolded. Several bloggers residing in India's financial capital were live-blogging events as they happened and many others who could not get online were on the phone feeding updates to news agencies and social media sites.
"If newspapers can not compete with blogs and online news sites in terms of speed and variety, perhaps they can trump them in terms of depth or trust. After all, feature-length content with solid, investigative reporting is not something you will often find on most blogs or personal sites on the web."
Blogging is the ultimate equalizer. Just like brick and mortar businesses had to come to terms with e-commerce, writers need to adapt to the digital medium and morph their skills to suit, not throw tantrums and claim that the sky is falling.
The cachet of being a journalist is no longer restricted to the tertiary-educated, long-suffering newspaper cadet. Global Internet uptake and the advent of Web 2.0 has ensured that news can be reported instantly anytime, anywhere, by anyone.
Social media sites provide the channels to reach a mass audience and blogs provide the content. Blogging - even on a micro scale like Twitter - unlocks the journalist inside everyone and that is not a bad thing.
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