The Scobleizer and Technovia debate about blogging and journalism
continues here
and here.
It started when Technovia pointed out that 30,000 bloggers could be wrong if they
all got their information from the same blog.
Wired has an article about Jorn
Barger, the editor of Robot Wisdom who is credited with coining the
word "weblog". J-Walk also has a blog entry about
Barger and points to this photo from dvorak.org.
Alternet reports
that Leonard Clark, an Arizona National Guardsmen in Iraq, was ordered to stop
blogging according to this DailyKos entry.
Authors Tom Dolby
says his Dolblog is more of an author news section than a blog and he is concerned that a true blog might take something away from his novels.
The Weblog Empire has launched a political blog called
Donklephant.
Darren Barefoot offers suggestions about how much you should pay a blogger.
David Sifry reports that
Technorati averages 900,000 posts per day but the cynical
Association Blog says most of them will never be read by anyone except the author.
Antonella Pavese says
blogging is a balancing act between free expression and being comfortable with
other people reading what you have posted on your blog. If you get too personal you might regret it later.
TechNewsOnline says that the reason MSN Spaces is so popular is because many people just use it as a photo gallery.
Micropersuasion.com switched to registration after being overwhelmed by
comment spam. Then Micropersuasion.com switched back to non-registration again.
A study finds that people spend two hours per day at work engaged in non-work activities
like surfing the web. The study must have not included bloggers who spend
nearly all their time surfing the web.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary and unfortunately it
can lead to Really Simple Stealing.
