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Re: Tuesday, February 28, 2006
"Rather than anchor the definition of journalism in some top-down manner defined by professional pyramids of long standing, how about anchoring it in writers? Specifically, individual, independent writers." An excellent point... As a reader, I go to blogs for something altogether different from what I get from other media, except perhaps from the occasional personal essay or Op Ed piece. Blogs are diverse, opionated, lively, personal, ad hoc, idiosyncratic, varied, and often amusing and fascinating, like intimate glimpses of real human beings spontaneously reacting to current events and to each other. The "old media" versus the blogosphere is one of those either/or frames that distorts the topic. Blogs are necessarily affecting the "old media" but the either/or frame is misleading. I'm not a techie nor a blogger, so I don't know enough to comment on Hyperwords. But I do often follow links and often find the linked material rewarding. For searches, I use Google as available in Firefox. There are responses to this message:
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