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March 08, 2006
Old Projects, New Projects, Now Projects and Why Bloggers Kinda Suck.
I am still planning on writing about what I know about the whole vote of no-confidence thing if it's not soooo last week for everyone. I was going to write on Friday but between crashing my car (no one hurt, car not coming back...) and dinner things got kinda tight.
My sister and I are totally working on a webpage together, it's gonna be awesome. I'll be killing this thing (probably) once the site is up and running.
Also if haven't made this clear yet Slate.com is the finest online publication, and a good contender for best publication anywhere, period. On Monday they're going to be trying a neat new experiment (something they seem to be doing a lot of lately to good effect) of a real-time serialized novel called The Unbinding by Walter Kirn (whose best bio exists in the previous link).
Other neat things Slate is doing that you might have missed:
Slate audio book club - The first book is Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking (nybooks review).
Slate on NPR - Just like it sounds, download them as podcasts too.
Today's Pictures - An addition to the 'Today's' selections from Slate. These are photos pulled from the Magnum archives sometimes with the photographers talking about their work over a slideshow.
Slate is rapidly becoming the only website you'll ever need.
Lastly, I'm not huge fan of Wal-Mart (less of a critic than many but just barely) so this article didn't surprise me about Wal-Mart but the bloggers. I'll admit I'm not very surprised, the attribution that doesn't take place is always appalling. In general I like blogging, I like bloggers, I think that on the whole it is a good thing. That said I don't think bloggers are or should be journalists or should recieve the protections journalists do. It is exactly practices like those in the article that prove my point. Journalists, as maligned as they are, simply produce a better, more consistant and forthright product than many bloggers are capable or care to put out. There are institutional reasons for this (journalists lose their jobs sometimes for poor behavior, bloggers don't) which really cannot be changed.
Posted by cak19 at March 8, 2006 04:47 PM
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Bloggers do sometimes lose their jobs, but it's usually not for poor journalism.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 8, 2006 07:19 PM
Have you ever read Mano's blog? I'd be willing to argue he is better and more thoughtful blogger than many journalists. Many journalists are starting to have blogs now too so technically speaking you could be talking about the same people.
Posted by: Aaron Shaffer at March 8, 2006 09:40 PM
The points you make about bloggers are the exact reasons that bloggers play a different role in society than strict journalists. I think many bloggers offer more honesty than the media. But even the traditional media can be purchased or persuaded towards a specific company, political party, or organization. The better bloggers cite their sources and you able to tell where their opinion starts and ends in their writings.
Posted by: Brian Gray at March 8, 2006 11:59 PM