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Sponsor |  TDavid | May 5, 2004 7:10pm | Interesting article, Millerbull, thanks for sharing :) My initial reaction is that blogs are reactionary.
They are also often rough draft quality writing at best, or at least read that way. Blog entries are not the same as a well researched article or news story with an editor signing off on the content.
I might use a blog entry, for example, to flesh out the rough draft of an article. I write reviews on my blog and will sometimes cosmetically alter the reviews (never my opinion, just the spelling and missing/incorrect words).
When it comes to reporting on something that requires some degree of research my initial reaction to something would never be published in an article or other carefully vetted document, but it is possible that it would make it in some form or another to a blog entry, perhaps presented as a ponderance of some sort and looking for other opinion and information.
I try to be careful to identify when I am uninformed or not that knowledgeable about something. That might be a good rule of thumb for bloggers to help with their credibility.
Blogs thrive on that sense of immediacy and need that to stay true to the way humans truly react to things, however, as a blog grows and matures it will likely need to better qualify and disclaimer away some of the rougher draft output, I think.
Something like what Slashdot is doing seems to be a good model to emulate. |
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Sponsor | | Millerbull | May 6, 2004 8:55am | Somewhere in the article it says:
"Just as we tend to take some print and broadcast journalism with a large grain of salt, we'll have to learn to parse what we read online -- to develop a hierarchy of trust."
The structure of blogs is based on immediacy over accuracy and I like this arrangement. For me and the blogs I choose to read, blogs keep me ahead of the curve in the news/events/rumor factory (whether it be entertainment, politics, technology, etc) and it is my job to verify the statements or wait for standard stream of journalists to do it.
I like the rough draft quality of blogs (gives you the feeling it's something that was just discovered minutes ago) and, of course blogs, will mature/evolve as time passes but I think this is a niche' that they will want to cling to -- at least I hope they do. |
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