Steve Rubel made an interesting point about how the blogosphere, and its cousins vod casting and pod casting, are changing the talent marketplace in a post about Amanda Congdon, though most of his readers (at least according to their comments) seemed to miss this salient point.

Steve’s contention was that the talent marketplace is being flattened.

What I think is even more exciting is that the blogosphere and its cousins will not only make the talent market flatter, but also much larger. We are talking about a global market after all.

What’s stopping the creative industries from picking and choosing “talent” from anywhere in the world?

Really it’s just a continuation of what’s already happened in international trade and business. I think everyone would agree that the world wide web and email made doing international business much easier.

Now individuals working in creative industries are able to promote and demonstrate their talents on a global areana.

And it’s not just television or movie stars. In my case I’m just about to have a book published in the US by Wiley (I’m based in Australia) – not that I class myself in the same league as some of the real talents out there.

Sure, it woud have been possible to write a book for a US publisher 15 years ago, but boy, the Internet has made the process so much easier.