Link: MercuryNews.com | 01/24/2005 | Memo to media establishment: Ignore blogs at your peril.
The ear-pricking scene punctuated a two-day conference on ``Blogging, Journalism and Credibility'' at Harvard University at which a Johnny Appleseed of blogging, Harvard fellow Dave Winer, had compared established media to the mainframe computers rendered obsolete by desktop PCs and Macs.
After seeing this little item at The Mudville Gazette via Instapundi I think that Dave Winer should limit his metaphors to his area of expertise. Although since he's at Havard you'd think he'd have learned something by now. Oh wait.. He's in Law. I guess that must explain his total cluelessness about the current state of mainframe computers. Many businesses attempted to downsize from the mainframe and in many cases found that nothing had the transactional processing power they needed. So rather than replacing mainframes with a network, the mainframes became part of the network. And the idea that PCs made Mainframes obsolete is ridiculous. So Dave... stick to law.. thanks
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