Archives for the "Journalism" tag
A response to Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor is writing a book about journalism and blogging and asked people to help him with it. I have just sent an email on the introduction and figured it might be useful to other people interested in this subject. So here it is: You are hitting on the right points but there may be a [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism, Syndication
In Business, Media, Technology
Water found to be wet
If blogging is to replace journalism, it has to do a better job than current journalists. Even journalists are now decrying the low quality of reporting. Of note: “CEOs describe business journalists as lacking a basic understanding of how businesses operate.” Now that’s pretty scary. If you cover something, shouldn’t you at least understand its [...]
Tags: Journalism, Trends
In Media
What are weblogs?
It seems that my bit of navel gazing about blogs has attracted a lot of attention. Among some of the things that came up, though, is that there is no clear agreement as to what blogs are. So in the search for definition, I went back to trying to figure out what people mean when [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism
In Media
Thoughts on blogging and journalism part II
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism
In Business, Media, Technology
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 [...]
Tags: Blogging, Journalism
In Business, Media, Technology
