Blogging as a talking point
Alright, another post about blogging. Its funny how when you write about something you often find more about that subject. So now I found an essay entitled ‘Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever-Expanding Blogosphere’ an essay about how Blogs are competing with and sometimes more trusted than major news organisations.It’s talks about how the honesty of bloggers, even if it is more biased than news organisation, makes them trustworthier than major news sources. How the bloggers concentrate on specific themes and ideas that people want to read about and how bloggers, unlike news organisations, are generally more willing to admit mistakes.
The truly interesting thing, however, is this graph which demonstrates the number of links blogs make to specific sites. The top five sites in order, are The New York Times, CNN, BBC news, The Washington Post and Slashdot: news for nerds, stuff that matters. (With The Guardian unlimited, where I got the article from, sixth.). The interesting thing was that the fifth is a Blog, as are many others in the top 40. A number of well-known sites, like FOX news are being outperformed by one man blogging shows.
True, these link sites are taken from Blogs (so its what blogs link to that matters for this show) which means that the scale is seriously skewed in favour of blogging (blogs talk about blogs, I hope that doesn’t surprise anybody) but still, major news organisations are being out performed, in many instances, by Blogs.
Some pretty big newspapers don’t even show up at all in the Top 40, as they aren’t trusted or referred to as much as Blogs. What am I trying to say? I’m not sure, really, I guess I’m just trying to point out the growing importance of blogs, even if this article is a bit skewed. It seems to me that Blogs are not a passing fad, but are here to stay. A useful news source that will have to be watched closely for interesting titbits. The trick, I believe, is finding ways to separate the diamonds from the rough. More on techniques for that as soon as I find them.
posted by Symbol @ 19.8.04
1 Comments:
slashdot... is a blog??? guess i've always considered it a "news site," but oh well - it can be true as well...
And i agree!!! blogs, and bloggers, are starting to make more and more of an impact!!! yeah... It's the way things have always worked (at least for the thinkers - and the people who dared to think different), isnt it? only now, things have gone online - and global.
well, just some morsel for thought...
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