I was reading this entry on the Weblogg-ed blog by Will Richardson. I’ve started to believe that RSS aggregation technology is the closest we have come to a data mining technology accessible to the common man. Not only that, but it solves the filtering challenges associated with agent technologies because it builds upon easy to establish one way relationships between bloggers and their subscribers (note that it can be two way, but not necessarily).
When I was at university I did a few introductory journalism subjects, primarily focusing on journalism in print. On the whole I found that it was a very emotionless practice although you could employ emotional devices to make an impact – but there was definately a shortage of opinion (in good examples).
Is this changing? Will the new face of journalism be much more personal, will there be much more opinion. I hope so. If Kerry Packer’s minions started blogging would that constitute a violation of Australia’s cross media ownership regulations?