Comments on: Back to the Future http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/ Hunting, Fishing, and Outdoor Blog Network Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:59:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: darrell http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-2057 darrell Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:19:33 +0000 http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/#comment-2057 In the future we will be blogging in 'real time'. In the future we will be blogging in ‘real time’.

]]> By: Bryan http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-1962 Bryan Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:20:59 +0000 http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/#comment-1962 First off...I LOVE "Back to the Future." It's one of my favorite movies to fall asleep too. Speaking of which, it actually sucks to fall asleep to a DVD because you will inevitably be woken up to that annoying audio loop on the menu screen. Okay, back from my tangent! I think blogging will grow increasingly popular with time. As Greg mentioned, politics have already started to incorporate online communities into their marketing schemes. And so it will be with major corporations. Also, as youth become more involved in hunting, they will bring a generation that never knew life without the internet. That generation will bring creativity beyond our wildest dreams... First off…I LOVE “Back to the Future.” It’s one of my favorite movies to fall asleep too. Speaking of which, it actually sucks to fall asleep to a DVD because you will inevitably be woken up to that annoying audio loop on the menu screen.

Okay, back from my tangent! I think blogging will grow increasingly popular with time. As Greg mentioned, politics have already started to incorporate online communities into their marketing schemes. And so it will be with major corporations. Also, as youth become more involved in hunting, they will bring a generation that never knew life without the internet. That generation will bring creativity beyond our wildest dreams…

]]> By: Greg L Johnson http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-1959 Greg L Johnson Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:41:13 +0000 http://skinnymoose.com/network/2007/08/27/back-to-the-future/#comment-1959 Well, here's a topic that a life-long science fiction reader can hardly resist. Thirty years is a long time to try to predict social trends, but I see blooging, and bloggers becoming more important as people become increasingly aware that, with a half-dozen or so corporations controlling all the traditional media outlets such as newspaper, television and radio, the media they've always relied is becoming more and more geared toward serving the needs of the corporations who own them instead of the people who use them. Blogs offer people a chance to place their trust in individuals that prove to be knowledgeable and competent rather than news sources that are neither. You can already see this happening in the political blogs, where writers like Glenn Greenwald, Duncan Black, and Jane Hamsher are moving up from simple bloggers to becoming respected and consulted commentators. As for the internet, the fight is on right now for what shape that will eventually take. The corporations are looking to extend the control they have over media to include the internet because they know that, with wide-open access, the internet is now the only tool that stands in their way of a complete monopoly. An openly available, wireless based internet with high speeds could conceivably even break the cable companies control of television, and pave the way to a system open to anyone who wants to broadcast anything, making the public airwaves truly public for the first time. Well, a guy can dream, anyway. Well, here’s a topic that a life-long science fiction reader can hardly resist. Thirty years is a long time to try to predict social trends, but I see blooging, and bloggers becoming more important as people become increasingly aware that, with a half-dozen or so corporations controlling all the traditional media outlets such as newspaper, television and radio, the media they’ve always relied is becoming more and more geared toward serving the needs of the corporations who own them instead of the people who use them. Blogs offer people a chance to place their trust in individuals that prove to be knowledgeable and competent rather than news sources that are neither. You can already see this happening in the political blogs, where writers like Glenn Greenwald, Duncan Black, and Jane Hamsher are moving up from simple bloggers to becoming respected and consulted commentators.

As for the internet, the fight is on right now for what shape that will eventually take. The corporations are looking to extend the control they have over media to include the internet because they know that, with wide-open access, the internet is now the only tool that stands in their way of a complete monopoly. An openly available, wireless based internet with high speeds could conceivably even break the cable companies control of television, and pave the way to a system open to anyone who wants to broadcast anything, making the public airwaves truly public for the first time.

Well, a guy can dream, anyway.

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