A photographic imagination

In Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute, Jakob Nielsen articulates my own disappointment between the hype and reality of self-publishing in the following:

There are about 1.1 billion Internet users, yet only 55 million users (5%) have weblogs according to Technorati. Worse, there are only 1.6 million postings per day; because some people post multiple times per day, only 0.1% of users post daily.

Now I undersatnd why Technorati quotes the 57 million, because with $25 million in VC money and a PR agency as partner you have to spin, spin, spin for headlines .... but I can't undersatnd why the more cynical or critical eyes of the old and new media, who should be analyzing the data and the reality of the Blah-gosphere, choose to join the daisy chain at the biggest number.

Long tail journalism, I guess.