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Iāve just realised why the comments last night ascribing one monolithic mindset to the traditional media annoyed me so much: > His commenters show the typically depressing blogger mindset of treating us journalists like a monolithic social block that all behave the same way. Yet if any journalist should
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Two thoughts that have invaded my brain as I work on presentations for some of our journalists: 1. Journalistsā pre-existing reputation, and the inherited reputation from the magazine, are only good for one thing in blogging: getting people to the blog. From then on, the only thing that matters is
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But the internetās barely a couple of decades old and the most venerable of the technologies weāre talking about here, blogging, has only a decade of publishing history behind it. People are still finding new ways of creating compelling sites with this stuff. A few years back, āauthoritativeā
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All this begs the question: should we bother trying to get journalists blogging? Is there a value in it, if they find it hard to move beyond something that sits between traditional journalism and opinion pieces? Canāt we just leave journalists to do traditional journalism and use their work
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The [West End Whingers](http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com/), friends of One Man & His Blog and Londonās foremost quasi-alcoholic satirical theatre bloggers have been [interviewed by Londonist](http://londonist.com/2007/08/londonist_inter_19.php):> **Whatās with all the whinging? ** > Phil: Itās what we
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One of the ways that blogging complements traditional news is the way it can give you a real insight into the reality of peopleās experience. Take this story of a farm being submerged [http://www.farmingfriends.com/farm-flooded/] by the deluge of the last couple of days, which I
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Iām fighting a losing battle. To me, a blog is a frequently updated website, with a characteristic reverse chronological style and plenty of oppotunities for interaction. It is short for āweblogā. In my day to day work, aiding and abetting blogging journalists, and as I read around blogs in
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The Doctor's view on bloggingā¦
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Kevin Marks Anderson (sorry, itās been a long old week) has a right old go at how bad some journalists are over on Strange Attractor in a piece titled Blogging is like sex [http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/06/08/blogging_is_like_sex.php]: > āThe bottom
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Robin Hamman has posted an interesting write-up of a BBCĀ College of Journalism debate on the media coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings [http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/05/debate_on_virgi.html]. And the issue of digital doorstepping that I was talking about at the time has re-emerged. Professor
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A report from the Lewisham Blogger Meetup back in May 2007.
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Management Today has noticed that employees blogging is creating management conflicts: [http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/659949/mtsweek/hug-blogger/] > Here at MT, we think that if employers ā and employees ā are ever going to deal effectively with this situation, they need to engage in a deep-rooted analysis of