Ambassadors of blogging

Ambassadors of blogging
: Jay Rosen just put up his notes from his Davos trip:

The one clear role I had here was ambassador for the weblog form. Experts at this are Joi Ito and Loic Le Meur, both of whom joined me on the blogging panel. Joi even told me at last night’s closing party that he would like to take a year off from everything and just blog, by which he also meant spread the word.

Amen to that, blogging brothers. There is an admittedly cultish desire to spread this gospel, now that it is in the vulgate. There is a populist motivation to share the power this medium brings. And there is just plain excitement about being involved in something new. As Andrew Sullivan said: “I say this happens once in a lifetime: You don’t stumble across a new medium every day.”

10 responses to “Ambassadors of blogging”

  1. MattS Avatar

    Is there a technopolitical bubble? Well, in the short term, yes. In the long-term, we’re underestimating the shifts the internet (and its powerful blog appendage) will have.

  2. Dan Herzlich Avatar

    * * * * powerful blog appendage * * * *
    I wonder what the Blog Sisters will say about this one?
    DH ;) It’s like that old joke, where the woman says at the meeting, “Will all male members please stand up?”

  3. Jay Rosen Avatar

    Hi Jeff. I am heading back to the US soon. Thanks for blogging my notes, but you forgot the url! Click on my name for the Davos post.

  4. Jeff Jarvis Avatar

    Blush. Link fixed. Thanks

  5. Robert McClelland Avatar

    Dood, your neoblogging is becoming tiresome and embarrassing.

  6. Angus Jung Avatar
    Angus Jung

    “Neoblogging”? I can’t even remember the last time he mentioned The Matrix.

  7. Jeff Jarvis Avatar

    Robert: You have been civil for more than a week. Please keep that up.

  8. Robert McClelland Avatar

    >”Neoblogging”?
    Oops, I might have used a term that is not in the mainstream lexicon yet. Neoblogging is a term that means blogging about blogging.

  9. Angus Jung Avatar
    Angus Jung

    I thought that was called “metablogging”?

  10. Joi Ito Avatar

    By the way, I’m going to push the World Economic Forum to try to include bloggers in the Media Leaders program. Jay, help me push this. We need to get bloggers more integrated into the press program instead of being treated like “barbarians”. ;-)