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 Wednesday, September 15, 2004
started 9/15/2004; 1:54:11 PM - last post 9/15/2004; 4:06:00 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, September 15, 2004 
9/15/2004; 5:54:11 PM (reads: 4546, responses: 1)
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What it isn't 
| | I got slammed in an email this morning that essentially called me chickenshit for not piling onto Dan Rather and CBS for whatever it was they did (and continue to do) wrong. |
| | Well, folks, it's not that I don't care. Or that I don't know anything. It's that I don't know enough, and I'm busy doing my job, which isn't blogging. |
| | Here's one more. Blogging isn't cable TV. We don't have to fill otherwise empty pipes with "content," and we don't have to hold eyeballs still while our customers stab them with advertising messages. Most of all, we don't have to join the ranks of the professionally opinionated, or the choirs of voices raised in righteous rage against political enemies. |
| | We're free-range writers. If you don't like what we say or don't say, there are plenty of other potential sources of what you want, all gathered in a place that would never exist if it were up to the major media, the entertainment industry, the publishing industry, and the lawmakers and regulators who protect them all. (Even the writer who gave me shit wrote back later to report that he'd found what he wanted here.) |
| | If there's any fer-sure "message" about this "medium," that's it. |
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Dave Aiello - Re: What it isn't
9/15/2004; 8:06:00 PM (reads: 332, responses: 0)
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Doc:
You don't deserve to get beat on. There are four positions blogs can take on this issue: ignore it, mention it and stay as fact-based as possible, try to uncover new facts, or tell people what to think about it.
Even if you touch on politics once in a while, you shouldn't have to tell people what to think about it. Your site isn't about politics.
--Dave Aiello, OperationGadget.com
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