“Business pros flock to weblogs”
I don’t know, it just struck me as dense somehow, mass media pros “discovering” weblogs.
What do you think?
Why does this sound stupid?
Posted in Feral Living
“Business pros flock to weblogs”
I don’t know, it just struck me as dense somehow, mass media pros “discovering” weblogs.
What do you think?
Posted in Feral Living
a lot of what they’re talking about is fundamentally different from what we do. They’re not linking to random fun they find, to new designs on their friends’ sites, writing about their experiences with The Peasant or the father of their child or about how much they drank last weekend. They’re interested in maintaining an in-house weblog, not intended for persons outside their business, to which important information that is currently published in an endless stream of email. That makes a good deal of sense to me. The concept of the weblog being coopted by big business is not something that really scares me all that much: like so many things on the internet, no one’s really figured out how to make any money off of it. And not too many of us that do it are interested. And I don’t see journalists jumping on the bandwagon, because traditional journalism relies a great deal on a measure of authority, conveyed by the appearance of professionalism, which very few webloggers have or attempt. As long as we keep doing this for ourselves and aren’t trying to please an audience, aren’t trying to sell a product, even if the weblog currency is prestige (link-whoring, blogdexing, etc) instead of cash, this can continue to grow in a positive, creative, and independent manner.
Jesus. One paragraph? Mig, you want to edit that sucker for me?
Okay, here goes:
Spacecheese comment, edited, draft 1:
a lot of they talking about what we do.
They’re not random father of their child last weekend. They’re in the house, persons, important information, endless. That makes a good deal of sense to me.
The concept of being coopted by big business is not something that really scares me all that much: like so many things, no one’s really figured out how to make any money off of it. And not too many of us that do are journalist, because traditional authority, conveyed by the appearance of professionalism, have or attempt long product, instead of cash, this can continue to grow in a positive, creative manner.
Anyone else care to try editing this?
Try #2:
a lot of (…) fun (…)new (…)experiences with (…) an endless stream of (…) me. [S]ee journalists jumping on (…)webloggers (…). As long as we keep doing this for ourselves and aren’t trying to please an audience, (…)this can continue to grow in a positive, creative, and independent manner.
Yeah I like Mig’s version better.