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Blogs can’t do ‘serious’ news is a load of crap

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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reality-tv One of the biggest slams that traditional media and other such loud-mouthed pundits like to make against blogging is that blogs can’t do in-depth serious types of reporting. These better-than-thou bastions of news would like everyone to think that only they can provide true news coverage, not like those flakey pajama wearing bloggers.

Well just as there are papers like National Enquirer and the New York Post or television shows like Inside Edition there are indeed blogs that are flakey and sensationalistic. However just as there are papers like The New York Times or the Washington Post there blogs with as much desire to dig deep and wide for news and do their best to bring us the very best in coverage – regardless of niche.

One such blog has to be The Wrap which is a blog that concentrates on reporting about entertainment and media. It is run by Sharon Waxman and opened its doors back in January, 2009.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: bloggers, blogs, journalists, news

Who owns the news?

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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newspapers Well it looks like we might have another hot button topic developing and as usual when it comes to blogs and traditional media it is about a journalist claiming that some dirty old blog has stolen their content. The journalist in question is Washington Post’s Ian Shapira who is whining about how Gawker cherry picked his original article for the best quotes and is now making money off of what is basically his work.

Using terms like “the blogosphere’s thrash-and-bash attitude” and “nervous about my precarious career as a newspaper reporter” Shapira paints a picture of a newspaper industry that is being undermined by unethical bloggers. He more than willingly admits to a subversive pleasure when he first saw that his original story had been picked up by Gawker. It wasn’t until his editor asked him where his rage was over how Gawker had stole his story that Shapira started to get angry.

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The fallacy of Twitter beating RSS into a pulp

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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arturo With the increasing popularity of the so-called real-time web social media mucky-mucks have been writing about how things like blogs and RSS is dead. If not dead then at the very least being minimized as services like Twitter and Friendfeed are being promoted as the best way to keep up with what is happening.

Ya. Okay. Sure. Whatever you say.

Let’s try this again okay. Neither blogs nor RSS is going anywhere, nor or in for foreseeable future regardless of what these so-called know-it-alls say. If anything as the popularity of Twitter and other real-time services grow the need for good solid blogs will increase and RSS will only get better. After all who or what is it that even feeds things like Twitter or Friendfeed in order to make them useful – yup, blogs and RSS feed.

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: blogs, Facebook, FriendFeed, RSS, RSS readers, Twitter

Posting Redux: Bloggers – Hypocrisy of ethics

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Steven Hodson
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While moving to the new domain and new name I’ve been finding posts that I really liked when I first wrote them. So I have decided to repost them as part of a regular Sunday feature for the next little while. At the bottom of the repost I will also update the original post with any new thoughts that I might have had since orginally publishing the selected post; along with any corrections that need to be made.

You say potatoe .. I say potato

Originally posted February 1, 2007

Almost since the first AdSense panel was displayed on a blogger’s page the question of advertising and blogging has been a simmering issue that raises its head every once in awhile. The last time there was a great big blowup in the blogosphere over the ethics of advertising on blogs it was due to the launch of services like PayPerPost and ReviewME.

The battle lines where drawn around three separate camps on the issue. There were the purists who said that advertising of any kind had no place on blogs. We were apparently suppose to spend our time writing and eat the cost of having a site to display those thoughts. We were suppose to be professional without getting any of the benefits of that growing professionalism other than a nice warm and fuzzy feeling.

The second camp recognized that hosting bills and the such couldn’t be paid with warm and fuzzy; and felt there was nothing wrong with accepting sponsorships, sidebar ads and Google AdSense. This way bills got paid and if there was anything left over after that then it was a bonus. Which for some those bonus grew; and continue to grow, into a nice livelihood as it should for a professional. Read more …

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Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: advertising, bloggers, blogs, Post Redux
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