The Future of Weblogging
Nico Macdonald,
The Register,
Apr 19, 2004
BloggerCon was held over the weekend, and if you didn't notice, don't fret. This article summarizes some of the discussion with what seem to be calls from the mainstream for bloggers to be more, well, mainstream. Consider one speaker: "we need to encourage more people to be journalists. Journalism involves actually interviewing people, doing thorough background research on a subject, presenting a rounded and dispassionate overview, and reasoning through substantive arguments." All very fine, but this is the picture of an uninformed outsider coming in and trying to capture a story in eight graphs, in other words, a journalist. Bloggers write from the inside, though: they are the people who would be interviewed, who have already done research, who have already considered the arguments. Journalism is about a dispassionate intermediary; blogging is about impassioned first person views. Many people don't get that yet.
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