tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008588175643826594.post7646953011280305545..comments2024-03-05T09:21:08.423-05:00Comments on What's the Word Now?: 'Blogger'TrishEMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18298314202870039396noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008588175643826594.post-6287940462239332252013-05-05T01:22:58.439-04:002013-05-05T01:22:58.439-04:00Thanks for reading back through my older posts! No...Thanks for reading back through my older posts! Not that I have a huge volume of them yet, but I still appreciate the time and effort.<br /><br />I was definitely interested in your comparison post; thanks for pointing it out to me. You make some good points, although I would argue with some of them (you probably would revise some of them too by now, five years later, given how things have evolved). <br /><br />I certainly agree that the lines between journalism and blogging have blurred, and sometimes bloggers do a much better job than the professionals. I must absolutely disagree with your tentative definition (in the comments) of a journalist as someone who has a journalism degree, because I'm one and I don't, nor do many of the finest ones.TrishEMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18298314202870039396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008588175643826594.post-74736328037161575872013-05-04T07:21:20.151-04:002013-05-04T07:21:20.151-04:00As you said, blogging is just a tool or method. No...As you said, blogging is just a tool or method. Nothing unusual about that. Over the last 5 years blogging has been commercialized both because traditional news sources have "bought" bloggers and forced their journalists to be bloggers/twitterers. <br /><br />I think the distrust towards bloggers is misapplied.But you need to be careful about which bloggers you read. Although I follow hundreds (if not thousands) of blogs, I really only keep up with less than 15 (BTW, Chuck Kuffner's is one of them! ) <br /><br />BTW, you might enjoy <a href="http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammer/2008/02/bloggers-vs-journalists-a-comparison/" rel="nofollow">my post comparing journalists vs. bloggers </a>.Robert Naglehttp://www.imaginaryplanet.net/weblogs/idiotprogrammernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3008588175643826594.post-39936722826756597202012-10-20T17:57:18.388-04:002012-10-20T17:57:18.388-04:00That is pretty weird, and the urban dictionary def...That is pretty weird, and the urban dictionary definitions are ... just checking ... yep, 5-10 years out of date. <br /><br />When the NYT, Forbes, The Atlantic, the Guardian, etc., all have blogs -- and that's just mentioning some mainstream media -- it's pretty backwards to look at it that way. Professional blogs are all over the place, universities expect faculty to blog, and this guy probably goes to dozens of blogs every time he searches for anything on the web. <br /><br />I wonder if neologisms are generally prone to radical definitional shift in their early years. What do you think? Know any other examples?beachrathttp://beachrat.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.com