by Steven Heller

This panel will explore the viability of blogs as a forum for serious critique and commentary, as well as an online community outlet. We will address the pros and cons regarding journalism (or the appearance of same) as well as blog manners and mores. In addition we will discuss blog design and where the form is going in the future. Of course specific questions will be addressed to the design blogmasters about the effects and affects of their sites on the design fields, and why one or two blogs are central while scores of others are seemingly marginal. What makes a viable blog and What does it take to be a mover in the blog world. Moreover, I want the audience to participate by discussing their own relationship to the blogosphere.