Blogging Anniversary
Thursday, November 29th, 2007According to the Wall Street Journal, December 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of blogging.
What began as — what? No one had ever done this before, and now it is in a period of exponential growth which marks blogging as being on the verge of legitimate journalistic enterprise.
And the key word there is enterprise.
What blogging has done is allow anyone with an opinion to express it.
News organizations often make use of their reporters as bloggers, and we have embraced it here at the Denver Broncos, including the recent addition of General Manager Ted Sundquist.
Competition should never be discouraged, and news organizations do not have a monopoly on thought or expression. Businesses and sports teams know a lot about their product, ususally more than outsiders, and the more they tell people about how things work, the more they let outsiders in, the greater degree of understanding they potentially can gain from interested parties.