Blogging as Revolutionary as Gutenberg Press

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When Johannes Gutenberg developed his movable type printing press in the early 1400’s it revolutionized the publishing industry in many of the same ways that the recent development of blogging is.

Prior to Gutenberg publishing was accomplished using two primary means. The most common way was for scribes to hand copy works. For a book the size of a Bible the process took a year or more to publish one copy. Alternately printing could be done with hand carved wood blocks which was also an incredibly labor intensive process.

When the movable type printing press came on the scene suddenly books that took a year or more to duplicate could be copied in a matter of days. It greatly reduced the cost of printing and allowed authors and publishers to reach a much wider audience. This advance in printing technology put mass communication into the hands of people who never had access to it previously.

Here are just a few of the ways that the movable type printing press was revolutionary. It was

• Faster
• Cheaper
• Wider Distribution
• Mass Communication

The internet is transforming how information is being transmitted. However publishing that information to the web still required Today’s blogging is an order of magnitude leap in publishing technology on the same level as Gutenberg’s press was over the scribes of his day.

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