Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Gavins Blog.com] Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay: Conversely, good reporting and intelligent commentary is passed from blog to blog and spreads like wildfire beyond the jurisdiction in which it was originally published. This can only be good for journalism in the long run, if only because, as my mother used to say, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
[Qumana Blog :: Main Page] What's happening is a small but significant change: disinfectant. Blogging won't wipe out journalism, for the simple reason that journalism requires skills... are somehow threatened by bloggers. Fortunately, there are many others who can see a very important... of journalists. Blogging changes all that. Ignorant, biased or lazy journalism is instantly exposed
[SOCIOECONOMICS] Blogs Are Here To Stay: 'There are thoughtful blogs, silly blogs, truthful blogs, fanatical blogs, ideological blogs, biased blogs, knowledgeable blogs - just as there are thoughtful, silly, fanatical, ideological, biased and knowledgeable books. Not to mention newspapers and magazines...'
[After Deadline] The future of open source media: In '94, the debate was whether or not online newspapers might wipe out print and the prevailing thought (correct) was that they would not. That didn't (and doesn't) stop some papers from digging in and resisting (Herald-Sun). Even now, only a handful of papers like the News & Observer and the Greensboro News & Record have had the vision to embrace blogging as a means to connect better with readers -- a means to expand the paper's value, not cry about the potential "threat" that blogging might present.
[Alan's News] I WANT MEDIA - Monday, 03/14/05: Issue -- Are Bloggers Journalists? A judge has ruled that two Web sites have no right to protect... lawsuit against Gawker -- which runs on a shoestring budget -- wipe out the snarky site? As a blog...journalism of assertion," in which news is offered on radio, cable and blogs with little attempt to verify
[Billhobbs.com] BillHobbs.com - Political punditry and blog-journalism from Nashville.: Bowers is chairman of the Memphis Democratic Party. Newton, widely regarded as a "RINO" (Republican-In-Name-Only" because he tends to act as Democratic House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh's lapdog, may find few friends on the GOP side of the aisle as the prosecution grinds forward. All four indicted lawmakers can continue to serve in the legislature unless and until they are convicted of a felony. However, they forfeit committee chairmanships or other leadership positions while under indictment.
[Nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com] Journalism as a Creative form of Art | Nick Lewis: The Blog:  To put it another way, were as traditional journalism is concerned with only the most important of facts, and reporting them in the clearest, and most concise manner possible, this form of journalism approaches a news event as a novel, but of course is prohbiden from making anything up. This “novel” of a news event has entertaining wonderful characters and dialogues; its plot is full of powerful metaphors, and archetypes; beyond simply informing the reader of the facts of the event, this form of journalism seeks to help the reader relate the event to their own lives”¦ to convince them that they should care, but to do so without the reader even being aware of it. Hopefully, the reader would simply think of it as an entertaining essay. The reason I say that this is in “art” is because I don’t think very many people have the type of mind that can see these characters, metaphors, and archetypes.
[Nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com] Bloggers Fight Back Against FEC Cracldown | Nick Lewis: The Blog: "The FEC’s rulemaking should extend the media exemption to bona fidenewscasts, articles, editorials, and commentaries appearing in onlinejournals or political blogs. New rules should preclude a complaint thatan online journal or blogger is making an in-kind contribution to acandidate by promoting (or attacking) a candidate for federal officethrough a blog posting, online journal article or commentary, or link,even if the journal or blogger has communicated with a candidate orcommittee. Thus, if Josh Marshall links to the Kerry for President siteand generates 50,000 visitors to Kerry’s home-page and $1 million innew contributions, this should not be treated as an in-kindcontribution, any more than if a David Brooks New York Times column inspired $1 million in contributions to the Bush campaign.
[Mydd.com] MyDD :: Bloggers, Ethics and Accountability: They seem extremely concerned about the bloggers inconscionable lack of ethics so I'm hoping they can find some ways to correct our egregious practices. While it is obviously preposterous that a conference about ethics and blogging includes almost no one who is primarily a blogger rather than a journalist, the frequency with which political blogs are held to the same standards as an almost entirely different activity--journalism--is just as preposterous. Blogging is not journalism, and vice versa, but journalists, both in print and on television, frequently view blogging as some sort of slight variation on journalism that should thus be held to the same standards as journalists.
[Webraw.com] 31 Flavors of Blog: The primary goal is to showcase the variety of blogs on the Web while also examining blogs that are serving an audience that traditional media is generally neglecting. An additional goal is to focus on unique blogs, blogs that aren't carbon copies of 1,000 other blogs on the Web. Also taken into consideration are specific achievements that some blogs have been recognized for either by traditional media or the blogging community. Finally, each blog must be at least 30 days old (or have at least 30 posts) and the latest post cannot be more than 180 days old.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, SEO, SEO Files
