Whoa!

Jeff Jarvis and Clay Shirkey are piling on Seth Godin's Change This before Seth and his team of talented interns can even get started.

This feels to me like convicting the criminal before he even committed the crime.

I say let's see what Change This creates, and then we can criticize it. Maybe it will evolve into something great. Maybe it will fail.

Blogging is not the big new thing. People centric media, or citizen's media as Jeff calls it, is the new big thing. I do not believe that PDFs vs blogging is an interesting distinction. Yes, Change This will have to figure out how to let people link to their manifestos. I think what really matters is if Change This can create a new way for important dialog to happen. I think its got a chance.

Those who close the door to people trying new things are doing so at a disservice to everyone. I say "Bring it on Seth."

Comments

[Johannes Ernst]

This sounds like a computable version of Memes to me. What they are missing, however, are links between those PDFs aka Memes so we can build more complex edifices.

And I agree, it has nothing to do with blogging per se, so all lot of the noise in other places seems to be attacking ChangeThis as something that it isn't and doesn't intend to be.

[Stewart Vardaman]

FWIW, I'm reading your blog using the lynx web browser, which is purely text-based. Lynx cannot read PDFs at all. For me the idea of using PDFs for this type of thing is terrible.

I can read PDFs on my Palm PDA, another alternate device I read web content on.