News and Blogging February 9, 2008
I think David Weinberger begs the question here.
He’s basically saying that just because something deserves to be covered (in the media, including the blogosphere) doesn’t mean bloggers will blog it.
But he’s presuming that the criteria for “deserves to be covered” is something other than something that someone, somewhere cares to blog about.
What qualifies something as deserving of being covered? I take the apparently contrarian view that it’s something that someone, somewhere cares to blog about. How else are you going to define “deserving”?
Update: Ah, he’s saying it “doesn’t rise to the top of the blogosphere.” Well, shoot. In a long tail, miscellaneous environment, rising to the top is meaningless, isn’t it?
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Comments to “News and Blogging”
It’s a tricky thing, isn’t it? Where do we draw the line in our own blogs and say, this is for my personal online diary and this is for my role as a citizen journalist? I guess you could say it’s often a bit of both because the topics that we tend to focus on in our posts are the ones that personally matter to us.
Thanks,
Lester