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October 14, 2005
Bloggers "probably not journalists"
Reading articles like this (via Instapundit) make me want to take a fork and jam it in my eye over and over until someone rescues me while I still have enough vision left to throw myself into a volcano.
I can't read articles about blogging any more. 99.8% of the articles written about blogs and 300% percent of the legislation being discussed concerning blogs is being done by people who -- at best -- know absolutely nothing about blogs.
A blog is a simple piece of technology. Like a gun. Or a notepad. Or that dry erase board you had on your dorm door that Tiffany used to use to leave you messages.
ALL issues surrounding blogs have to do with personal behavior and HOW people use the technology. Blogs can be considered to contain journalism as much as they can't based on how they are used to convey information and the validity of that information. Period.
I could post a sourced, investigative piece on this blog and I could post about my trip to the mall. I could use a pen, a megaphone, a notebook, a televison studio, a napkin, the bathroom wall or whatever else I wanted to use to convey that information. If it's trustworthy information and you trust the medium I used to convey it, then the specific medium is virtually irrelevant.
| By colrus | 01:19 AM
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