Emerging Alternatives Blogworld
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Emerging Alternatives Blogworld by Matt Welch is a good article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
A few excerpts……..
Blogging technology has, for the first time in history, given the average Jane the ability to write, edit, design, and publish her own editorial product ¢ to be read and responded to by millions of people, potentially ¢ for around $0 to $200 a year. It has begun to deliver on some of the wild promises about the Internet that were heard in the 1990s. Never before have so many passionate outsiders ¢ hundreds of thousands, at minimum ¢ stormed the ramparts of professional journalism.
Is journalism being produced by blogs, is it interesting, and how should journalists react to it? The answers, by my lights, are “yes,” “yes,” and “in many ways.”
For those with time to notice, blogs are also a great cheap farm system for talent. You’ve got tens of thousands of potential columnists writing for free, fueled by passion, operating in a free market where the cream rises quickly.
Best of all, perhaps, the phenomenon is simply entertaining. When do you last recall reading some writer and thinking “damn, he sure looks like he’s having fun”? It’s what buttoned-down reporters thought of their long-haired brethren back in the 1960s. The 2003 version may not be so immediately identifiable on sight ¢ and that may be the most promising development of all.
It’s a really good overview of blogging.
Then I came across this:
Blogging Works Workshops (for Business)
Check out the price for workshops. No comment on this site.
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