Wednesday, September 01, 2004
salon.com has an opinion piece today in which mark follman comments on bloggers blogging from the RNC. he seems very upset about the frivolity of some of the posts he's found, and tut-tuts accordingly. i suspect that he is upset that bloggers, in general, do salon.com's job much better than salon.com does, all without being credentialed (though another salon writer likes to look at the way blogging is 'not journalism'). his criticism of its playfulness is largely unfounded, however, as an investigation lasting approximately 10 seconds will promptly tell you. for example, he chastises a couple of posts at oxblog for their lack of seriousness, but if one actually takes the time to visit the site, one finds rather a large number of serious posts, with analysis that often makes salon.com's own analyses look like grade school exercises, or, perhaps better, exercises in fantasy.
