The news today that Silicon Alley Media Inc., a collection of tech and business blogs, has raised some funding is rekindling a debate among various tech and business blogs about the future of--surprise!--tech and business blogs. Commenting on the Alley deal, Fred Wilson (pictured at left), a venture capitalist and widely read blogger, voices one view, which is that blogging, once a largely individual pursuit, is increasingly a team game dominated by media companies. "Late last year I wrote a blog post suggesting that individual bloggers like me were being replaced by traditional media as the leading voices in the blog world. It caused a bit of a stir and I followed it up the next day by saying that "social media requires real people," says Wilson, co-founder of Union Square Ventures. "My point in both posts is that I really...
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