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Covered in shit?
Sorry, but I don't see why Renee Tawa is "covered in shit" over Crashing the Blog Party. I read the story, and it's an okay article--nothing earthshaking, but not bad. I read Tony Pierce's post looking for the major fact-checking, and the only fact I saw checked was the claim that Slashdot isn't a weblog. If it isn't, well, someone should drop Dan Gillmor a note and ask him to take it out of his blogroll. Other than that, there weren't any facts checked--it was just anger that a local writer had written a national story about weblogging without calling up local webloggers. Is LA the weblogging capital of the world? Further, the article was about academics and journalists studying weblogs. It went on to note local examples of academics and journalists doing so. That's what the story's about, right? And those are the local people doing that. If the story had been "Crashing the Local LA Non-Journalistic, Non-Academic Blog Party", the pique would have been justified--but it wasn't. It wasn't the story some people wanted to read--tough. Life is like that sometimes. I thought the post from Slashdot about "an amusing rerun of the mainstreaming of sixties hippie culture by seventies marketing weenies" was particularly poignant. The quote that's been running through my mind lately is one I can't find! to the effect that: The daily newspapers are dropping like flies. The undergrounds will be replacing the dailies. Substitute "weblogs" for "daily newspapers" and "hubris" for "hubris" and you'll update the quote quite effectively.
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