Krishna Bharat, a principal scientist for Internet search engine giant Google, warned editors that the web was going to reshape their industry.On behalf of my fellow bloggers, I say - Bring them on!
"With each previous new technology, the face of journalism changed and we reinvented ourselves, but the heart of journalism -- the editorial process, editorial objectivity and values did not change," Bharat said.
He warned that bloggers -- people recording their lives, the events they witnessed first-hand and what they thought of it -- were going to grow increasingly significant.
Bharat said that as the number of bloggers rose, those churning out valuable journalism would too -- which editors had to take into account.
(Thanks Shy)
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