Comments on: Blog rage http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/850 Comforting the Afflicted and Afflicting the Comfortable Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean Pecor http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/850#comment-417 Sean Pecor Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=850#comment-417 I think a blog is largely a digital platform for conversations that might otherwise take place during a dinner among family, friends and acquaintances. I'd think at the very least, 95% of active blogs are of this nature. Take <a href="http://www.pecorfamily.com" rel="nofollow">mine</a> - you won't find any journalism there :) The other 5% in my experience are mostly opinion pieces with a sprinkling of journalism. Social currency gets distributed very quickly through blogs. I think this makes it a valuable tool for the journalist with strict ethical standards. It also makes it a valuable tool for bullshit artists or opportunists. Overall though, factual social currency seems to have much longer legs. It reminds me of that old saying. An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot. Sean I think a blog is largely a digital platform for conversations that might otherwise take place during a dinner among family, friends and acquaintances. I’d think at the very least, 95% of active blogs are of this nature. Take mine – you won’t find any journalism there :) The other 5% in my experience are mostly opinion pieces with a sprinkling of journalism.

Social currency gets distributed very quickly through blogs. I think this makes it a valuable tool for the journalist with strict ethical standards. It also makes it a valuable tool for bullshit artists or opportunists. Overall though, factual social currency seems to have much longer legs. It reminds me of that old saying. An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.

Sean

]]> By: cindy lee http://www.dougthompson.com/archives/850#comment-418 cindy lee Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.dougthompson.com/?p=850#comment-418 I use my blog as an on-line journel. I think that is what most people use it for. I use my blog as an on-line journel. I think that is what most people use it for.

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