Are Bloggers Journalists?CRLF
John Hiler,
Microcontent News,
Apr 11, 2002
Follow-up article to the previous one in which the standards for what I'll call serious blogging (or professional blogging) are considered. Some things to note: while weblogs are inherently biased and unedited, their usefulness to readers is based on trust. This entails that the weblogger be open about their biases, to issue caveats when their sources aren't certain, and to provide people with an opportunity to respond. What's really interesting is the shift from trust in an institution, such as the New York Times, to trust in individuals, such as Dan Gillmor. This is how a distributed information infrastructure filters poor content: through what has come to be called a web of trust. It doesn't even need to be formal to work: you trust me (right?) and pass on my recommendations to people who trust you; I, in turn, have a network of sources I trust, and I pass on what they write to you. And so it goes, as with journalism, so also with learning content.CRLFCRLF
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