Rodent Regatta

FOOTBALL? YOU SAY BLOGGING IS FOOTBALL?

What blogging really is. In addition to its intrinsic fascination, Stavros’s essay on the nature of identity provoked an unexpected insight: blogging can’t be journalism because… blogging is football! [Jonathon Delacour]

No, Jonathon, blogging is Op-Ed. ”qbullet.sidesmiley”
Just kidding. This fascination that so many of the people I read regularly have with comparing technoblogs and punditblogs or BigPub and blogging or journalism and blogging or professionals and bloggers is a mystery. It’s as if people are crying out for legitimacy.
It seems to me that when you put a blogging tool in the hands of anyone, you have essentially handed them a blank stenographer’s notebook or an empty sketch pad. What they do with it determines what it becomes and how they are labeled – if we must label everyone and everything. Put a stenographer’s pad in the hands of a new graduate of journalism school and send them out to cover some local breaking news. What do you get? You may not know for several years!