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About this site
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A new section on the emerging blogosphere that's edited by Hylton Jolliffe, the founder, editor and publisher of Corante who believes blogging's more than mere fad and that what will flow from it will have major implications for media, marketing, distributed thinking and business in general.
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CORANTE ON BLOGGING: In media res
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By Hylton Jolliffe
Dan Gillmor sounds, in a Slashdot interview on the state of the tech industry, his oft-repeated mantra about the new form of journalism that's emerging: "I assume that my readers know more than I do. I also think that's a great opportunity, not a threat to my journalism. When we're in this together, we get better results."
He continues: It'll be interesting to see how tomorrow's audience and journalists handle this evolution. My sense is that the combination of traditional journalism, tech-savvy reporters, weblogs, etc., will lead to a wider understanding of the issues." |
Dave Winer on the news that Robert Scoble's getting married tomorrow: "Everyone wants to know if the chapel will have 802.11, and is anyone blogging it? What about the reception? How about the honeymoon suite?"
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Cory Doctorow, in a Wired News article on the correction Howard Bashman's blog entry prompted: "There's a sense, a myth, that weblogging is entirely navel-gazing, inward-focusing activity... The idea that there's a federal judge reading weblogs so he can understand cases makes a lot of people feel like weblogs are not a niche phenomenon." |
Nick Denton says he's tired of the way the left hides behind language: "Complain all you like about the crudity of so-called warbloggers: at least most express themselves with Anglo-Saxon directness. They indulge in selective quotation, which is inevitable when their opponents offer so much waffle to choose from. But it's usually left-wing political writing which requires tedious textual analysis to extract the point." |
Howard Bashman responds to the news that a Fifth Circuit judge who's a regular reader of his blog stopped by his site the other day, read a post in which Bashman pointed out an error in an opinion he'd just delivered, and issued, the very next day, an amended order correcting the mistake: "An astonishing development, or just a small yet positive benefit of the amazing digital age in which we live?"
Denise Howell weighs in on the development: "[Was I] surprised? Naah, I guess I just assume everyone involved in appellate jurisprudence reads Howard's blog at least as assiduously as I do... Isn't this precisely how the Web is supposed to work?"
Rafe Colburn's take on it: "This astounds me." |
Elizabeth Lane Lawley says that "only twice in my life have I had this sense that a technology was about to become really important." But, she worries, "what's going to be the effect on blogging when/if the exponential curve takes its sharp turn upwards?" |
Marc Canter responds to Joi Itoi's post about the term "blog": "What I spend most of my waking life on right now is what ELSE is there and what is THAT called - that's circling or surrounding this publishing/communicating/interacting phenomena." |
Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis on the primary challenge facing traditional media: "Perhaps news media do not see themselves as connectors because they don't understand the network economy they now reside in... [The news media] need to explore not only new models of the newsroom... but also new malleable, flexible organizational structures." |
Jeneane Sessum proposes something others have alluded to: the "anti-blogroll": "I would list all the blogs I recommend avoiding because they spew hate and meaningless muck... The sum total of assholes on our combined anti-blogrolls could compete daily for a spot on anti-daypop, or--for more sizzle--'daypoop.'" |
Dorothea Salo: "I think I was something of a blogger before there were blogs... It’s just writing about stuff. Running off at the keyboard. (B)logorrhea. Nothing new at all. People did write to each other and for each other before there were blogs. Honest." |
Shelley Powers says that while "weblogging can be cathartic... weblogging as therapy isn't for everyone." She expands on the point: "The cathartic experience of writing our fears and troubles to a weblog can be accompanied by an increased vulnerability as we feel the pressure of such public exposure." |
Sheila Lennon, in a post in which she reflects on the junkets extended to some bloggers by Microsoft and the ensuing debate about whether it compromised what bloggers wrote about the company's products: "Blogging is bottom-up journalism. When it comes to reviewing, Microsoft shouldn't control this pipe, the bloggers should. This is how we literally turn the system around." |
Colby Cosh on "InstaPower": "Everybody thinks the amazing thing about Glenn Reynolds is the volume of posting he does, but when you compare it to the amount of reading he must be doing, the actual editing and posting look fairly trivial."
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John Brockman, in an essay from earlier this year, on the new humanists: "The arts and the sciences are again joining together as one culture, the third culture. Those involved in this effort—scientists, science-based humanities scholars, writers—are at the center of today's intellectual action." |
Toby Mundy, in an article in Prospect Magazine, on book publishing: "The future, it seems, belongs to writers, readers and entrepreneurs. There will be as many or as few masterpieces published as ever, but they will enter the world through proliferating channels." His cautionary words for the industry: "For publishers, ordinary writers and booksellers, the next few years could be the last great days of publishing as we have known it since the 16th century." |
Jerry Kindall explains, in an article by Michelle Delio, just what the blog-spammers are up to: "They're trying to jump-start a meme... If you have a nefarious mind and no consideration for how the Web works socially, it is a fairly clever and original, if evil, idea." |
K. Paul Mallasch offers up a list of various blogger types. The typical post of the "teenie blogger": "So, like today I was in the cafeteria talking about Shelly's stupid blog, ok, and then Josie like totally walked up in my face and said my blog was trash and I was like, noo way, talk to the blog, ya know, cause i'm cool and I don't play that. So anyway, I need to go eat dinner now. I'll blog on it later."
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Christine Boese follows up on One True b!X's criticisms of his article for CNN: "In blogs I saw the thing that was lost in the dot.com feeding frenzy and scammers greed-fest: independent voices outside of corporate journalism. And by golly, the last thing I'd think was needed was for those voices to be noticed by corporate journalism outlets such as I work for now."
Why did he write the original column? "Because I like to get the word out to the folks who get their media from lowest-common-denomonator-land, who are oblivious to the indy voices and undiscovered continent of the REAL Internet..."
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Ed Cone comments on Tara Sue Grubb's candidacy for state representative in North Carolina: "The fact is that for whatever combination of reasons, Tara Grubb's weblog has paid off big as a political tool."
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Cameron Marlow on the release of Blogdex 2.0: "Now that I have an index of all pages related to a given weblog, it's much easier to generate the popularity contest to end all popularity contests." Which would, he says, "be priority one if the users were in control :)"
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Kat Bulkele, who says blogging can make the reporter's "pen and pad look a bit antiquated," on blogging and Wi-Fi: "In terms of content, Wi-Fi networks will be an access method rather than a big driver of new forms of content."
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Denise Howell on blogs and the evolution of law: "What webloggers are doing today, legal researchers may be doing tomorrow... [It] probably won't happen any time soon, but it's not difficult to see how techniques being tested in the weblog arena now may shape the way research is done and laws are made down the road." |
Evan Williams in the discussion prompted by Anil Dash's comments about the security of blogging tools after Blogger was breached on Friday: "For the uninitiated, keeping a service as complex as Blogger secure is a constant struggle." He continues: "I is the nature of small, underfunded business that sometimes mistakes happen. We fucked up. We got beat. We admit that. But the arrogance of all these people who have very little clue what they're talking about is pathetic." |
Tom Coates tries to clarify the comments that have prompted some to criticize him: "Essentially all I'm looking for is a way for a community of individuals to have more influence - more, but equal influence - on each other because I think that there have to be campaigning techniques that operate in addition to argument or debate... I'm not trying to present a fait accompli."
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Steve Himmer on the use of comments in blogs: "[They] are almost a kind of validation, a confirmation—an answering echo to the voice we throw across a dark and quiet chasm. Even bad comments... mean you're reaching someone somehow."
On the other hand, he continues: "I wouldn't want a bunch of yes-bloggers congratulating me on every word, nor would I want my comments to become a haven for opinions and aggressions far removed from my own—a cracker barrel for bigots, if you will." |
Steven Den Beste on the first wave of bloggers and how the differences some of them are having with the warbloggers: "They think they created this medium (a claim open to severe doubt) and somehow feel as if everyone who followed them had a moral obligation to not only use the form, but also to stay true to the philosophy of content. But it doesn't work that way." |
Kevin Holtsberry: "It is odd just how involved one's emotions and ego can get in blogging."
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Jeff Jarvis: "If we are not careful, weblogs will turn into catalogues of 'What I think about...' When people could publish their own web pages, they too quickly became catalogues of "my CD collection." |
Tom Coates says he's realizing how he can express opinion through linking... or not: "I now believe that as an individual operating responsibly in this sphere, I have to be aware of any and all potential abilities I have to legitimately exert whatsoever influence I might have in order to stop what I perceive to be morally wrong, corrupt politics, cheap argument and potentially warmongering." |
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