In 1936, Walter Benjamin prefigured the transformation of the roles of author and reader which culminates today in the digital age by disseminating more content and open the possibility for anyone to be a reader-writer:
" Ave cl ' extension of the press, which has continued to available to the public with new bodies, political, religious, scientific, professional, local, we saw an increasing number of cores lection pass - first on a casual basis - the part of writers. The thing began when the newspapers opened their columns to "Letters to the Editor", and there is little today Europeans which, as he keeps his place in the process labor is guaranteed in principle be able to find, when he wants a forum to tell his experience, to expose their grievances, to publish a story or other text like that. Between author and audience, the difference is in the process thus becoming less and less fundamental. It is more than functional and can vary from one case to another. At any moment the reader is ready to become a writer " WALTER BENJAMIN
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The model The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Blog it akin to a super-well letters to the editor, where comments would be of readers' letters inside letters from readers? Except that the work and its process, are no longer provided the same access to a forum. It should be a "professional" to disseminate their experience. Personal initiative, even the profane, the engine is sufficient to publish content and it should not go through a transitional body as the publisher or the occupational structure.
Perhaps this attitude of "being ready" to become a writer of high alert (alert to what is password), as distinguished from the reader-authors authors: be on the starting block of writing.
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