From remarks made by Bill Gates yesterday at the Newspaper Association of America Annual Convention:

During those early Internet years, there was the question of the boundary between content and technology. And how would the world of content be changed by the Internet, that essentially allowed anyone to be a publisher. Just have a PC and simple tools, and you can put information out on the Web for people to read.

That sort of bottom-up publishing capability has really exploded in a certain way. Blogging [lets you] decide if, essentially, your regular diary being there, being accessible to everyone, is a very important thing.

Wow. Bill Gates knows what blogs are. Presumably that means he’s read a few. I wonder which ones? He strikes me as the Boing Boing type, or maybe Geisha asobi.
[ via Anil Dash ]