Content, Not Containers
While the social phenomenon of wikis and blogs allow individuals publishing power, the format or the medium is limited to groups with an income level of 45,000 or higher a year.
Certainly if you have a library card you can use the computers at the public library. But if you want to blog, you need the following: Access to the internet, basic knowledge of computers, and the obvious, own or have access to a computer.
Earlier this week, the US Census Bureau reported that in 2007 the U.S. average household median income is $50,233.00, a 1.3 increase between 2006 and 2007.
Things that make you go hmm:
How economically diverse are the bloggers in the blogosphere?
Which countries represent the percentage of the bloggers who answered the survey?
Source: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/012528.html
Moore’s Law
The article was a useful primer in understanding computer hardware, however I found the pod cast by Scientific American on-line explaining Moore’s law easier to understand.
The video explained Gordon Moore’s prediction, as the doubling of transistors every two years.
His forecast became an industry standard and contributed to the manufacture of digital electronic goods for consumers. .
Things that make you go hmm:
Moore’s second law addresses the manufacturing cost of sustaining Moore’s law, what type of alternative resources can be identified?
1 comment:
I agree with you that there is an economic/technological threshold for blogging. Blogging probably isn't nearly as "populist" as it is portrayed in the media. I can't verify any of these statistics, but this website presents some statistics on who is blogging, including an assertion that over 90% of bloggers are under 30.
On the other hand, I presume that bloggers are a much more diverse bunch, (by economic status, racial identity, gender and educational background, if not age) than authors of traditional media. I could be way off here, though.
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