« Cato's Thierer Misfires | Main | Unbelievable » Joi: Blogging Panel at DavosJoi Ito describes the blogging panel he sat on at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "I think we all agreed that the ability for blogs to talk with and become one with the audience was key." There's some good ablout blogging in here, like Loic Le Meur explaining that blogging is like "open sourcing" himself. [Link] What was interesting was the number of people from the mass media in the audience who still seemed to think that blogs were either just poor quality news or that bloggers were just wannabe journalists. One person from a newspaper said that she thought blogs would just become incubators for journalists. I (emotionally) asserted that the mass media and blogs were not the same. Many bloggers (such as myself) are blogging, not for the money, but for a passion which embodies what I believe is part of the heart and soul of journalism. We are not encumbered by the pressures of advertising, marketing and the burden of having to sell print media. It's insulting to think that all bloggers just want to be journalists for print media. I pointed out that big media had a role and that their ability to protect their journalists from litigation and to fund particularly expensive investigations and stories was something we can't do, but the notion that we're just little versions of them was absurd. jon posted this at 6:41 AM |
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