Paul Reynolds, a journalist at BBC.co.uk, writes a paean to blogs.
For many in the “mainstream media”, as bloggers call us, weblogs are at best a nuisance and at worst dangerous.They are seen as the rantings and ravings either of the unbalanced or the tedious.
My experience over the past few months has led me to an opposite conclusion.
I regard the blogosphere as a source of criticism that must be listened to and as a source of information that can be used.
The mainstream media (MSM in the jargon) has to sit up and take notice and develop some policies to meet this challenge.
Wow, that is great! I am new to blogging yet have been reading blogs for about a year. Now that I use Thunderbird as my RSS reader I have over 60+ blogs I read daily. The thing I love about the ones I chose are the authors really only blog content they think is worth it. I do however see tons of blogs that “don’t get it” and blog things like “Good Morning”. Of course, I am not sure I get it as I am considered a newbie.
Bob
I probably have even more print journalism experience than Paul Reynolds, and I don’t agree with him at all. Generally, you peoiple are annoying frauds with absurdly inflated notions of your own importance. It’s unfortunate that journalistic standards and practices aren’t sufficiently codified and thus the profession is subject to your bullshit. Lawyers — not to mention other professionals — simply wouldn’t stand for it.
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Blogs come and go. The best ones sometimes quit. There is a lot of advice out there on how to start a blog, how to write a blog, how to attract readers and raise traffic, even how to make some money blogging, but I have not found yet a good piece of advice on how to quit blogging. So I wrote one myself: Proper Procedure For Shutting Down A Blog.
A blog is the GeoCities homepage of this decade. 99.999999% of them won’t exist a couple of years from now.