Cory Doctorow on blogging in a diverse media landscape

Blogging is dying a silent death, the British magazine The Economist recently wrote, pointing out that new media like Twitter and Facebook will replace it. In the daily De Standaard Canadian writer and blogger Cory Doctorow disagrees: "When all we had was the stage, every performance was a play. When we got films, a great lot of these stories moved to the screen, where they'd always belonged ... . When TV came along, those stories that were better suited to the small screen were peeled away from the cinema and relocated to the telly. When YouTube came along, it liberated all those stories that wanted to be 3-8 minutes long ... . Any new development in the media landscape is a good thing. The stories we tell on the stage today are there not because they must be, but because they're better suited to the stage than they are to any other platform we know about. ... For me, the great attraction of all this is that preparing material for public consumption forces me to clarify it in my own mind. ... Thus the more media I have at my disposal, the more ways there are for me to work out my own ideas."

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