Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The 9th Estate - The bloggers
The usage Fourth Estate stood for press and probably the most widely accepted, undisputed and popular. I referred to wikipedia on this. It tells me the following. First Estate ( Clergy ), Second Estate ( Nobility ), Third Estate ( Commons ), Fourth Estate ( Press ) - so far no multiple claimants. Fifth Estate traditionally referred to trade unions, the poor and organized crime. The list of claimants does not stop there- politicians, visual media got added soon and later bloggers got added to it. You see there is no consensus. Traditionally, anything outside the first four estates were put in the fifth estate. Let us leave the fifth estate for unions, politicians, poor and organized crime. Then Sixth Estate can be motion pictures and television. Great ! Bloggers now can choose the Seventh Estate slot onwards! It would be fair to leave the seventh and eighth estates for the groups who emerged earlier, but didn't bother to press for. Logically, then bloggers can be on the 9th Cloud, looking at the strong emergence of the new internet evolution - cloud computing; the new internet experience. 9TH ESTATE can remain on the NINTH Cloud with all bloggers.
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