The Philadelphia Inquirer's review of the new book by blogger extraordinaire Glenn Reynolds concludes not only that the work is well worth its $24.99 price but that, if you're employed
somewhere in the world of traditional media, you had better read it for insight into why your company may be in jeopardy if it sticks stubbornly to its rigid old ways of doing things. Reynolds,
the author of the enormously popular InstaPundit.com blog, says that the days of non-interactive media are numbered. Today's model favors small, nimble, technologically savvy individuals or companies
with access to like-minded others via the Net. The Inquirer: "Recalling that John Kenneth Galbraith's 1966 book The New Industrial State argued that the very size of big
corporations protected them from both failure and competition, Reynolds points out that now, a mere 40 years later, 'a laptop, a cheap video camera, and the free iMovie or Windows Movie Maker software
(plus an Internet connection) will let one person do things that the Big Three television networks could only dream of in Galbraith's day, and at a fraction of the cost.’" If you're
not going to buy the book, at least read this (and other) reviews for a sense of how Reynolds views the transformative potential of the blogosphere.
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