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Thoughts on blogging and journalism part II

February 26, 2003

So it looks like my thoughts (see below) made it on Metafil­ter and are start­ing to make their way on other blogs with inter­est­ing com­ments com­ing up in each cases. While I appre­ci­ate the acco­lades, what I find most inter­est­ing is that peo­ple are divided over whether blog­ging is jour­nal­ism. It’s an inter­est­ing ques­tion and one for […]

Thoughts on blogging and journalism

There is a bit of a pack men­tal­ity among blog­gers. For most, one source is all that’s needed. Instead of read­ing about a sub­ject from mul­ti­ple source (an acqui­si­tion, for exam­ple), most peo­ple link to the same story again and again. This has its advan­tage (the story shows up at a higher rate in rank­ings like Day­pop or Popdex) […]