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Convention non-journalsim

When I saw that David Weinberger had put up a video blog entry critiquing an article on Cnet by Charles Cooper, I was worried we would hear the wounded (and boring) “blogging will eat journalism” refrain. Cooper claimed the the credentialed bloggers’ “coverage” of the convention was lackluster, and I agree. In particular, the few […]
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Convention, blogging, yada-yada

Hey, did you hear? Apparently there are bloggers at the convention. Oh, you did hear? That’s good. Went to a party last week and managed to correctly identify a guest’s accent as Georgian. She noted that such an ability, along with an academic study of blogging, meant I “should be appearing in an Us Magazine […]
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YABS

Yet Another Blogging Survey: Prospecting the Blogosphere. At some point, we will hit respondent fatigue. Given that, I wish that these surveys were getting at a narrower, theory-driven focus. The last thing we need is more demographic data, and more “why do you blog” questions. (Unless, of course, that is the actual point of the […]
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The best defense

Glancing at my server logs for the last month, I notice that my traffic more than doubled during the month of June. “Cool,” I think, “my amazingly incisive posts must be drawing in an ever-widening audience.” Then, very quickly, the truth becomes clear. Most of the growth is due to robots hitting my wiki, in […]
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