Played: media "consumers." Players: grassroots media makers. And blogs are at the center of it, says Jeff Jarvis.

I was just thinking how wrong the word "consumer" is today -- especially in the world of news, information, and media. For we don't just consume anymore; it's not a one-way world now. We produce. We report. We write. We edit. We improve. We amend. We remix. We comment. We argue. We correct. We distribute.

Jarvis' blog buzzmachine.com is one at the center of the blogging revolution. If you haven't checked it out yet, do - there's a great mix of stuff on politics, media, gizmos and global democracy. Jarvis - former TV Critic for TV Guide, founding editor of Entertainment Weekly, former SF Chron columnist and much more - is the guy who encouraged one of the leading pro-democracy Iraqi bloggers, Zeyad (of Healing Iraq), to start blogging.

Now, among other things, Jarvis is encouraging, keeping track of - and has abundant links to - Iranian bloggers. They're giving crucial first-hand perspective on that country's struggle with the ruling, anti-democracy, mad mullahs. One Iranian blogger you'll especially want to check out is Hoder. His blog's name says a lot: "Editor: Myself."

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at February 29, 2004 11:17 AM

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