Huff puff
Great piece on the blogging revolution by Arianna Huffington this morning. Rupert Murdoch is still weighing in and says the internet means the end of media barons.
But nothing is ever perfect in the online world as anyone who has worked on a website will testify. The Guardian Unlimited crowd will all be bald by lunchtime, tearing their hairs out as they try to promote their 'Comment is free' ethos - site has been down with the 'The page cannot be displayed' message that dotcom journalists dread.
I'm feeling their pain. However, you can always go to FT.com and take part in the online Q&A with Reuters chief Tom Glocer - he's asking: what's the point of blogs?
But nothing is ever perfect in the online world as anyone who has worked on a website will testify. The Guardian Unlimited crowd will all be bald by lunchtime, tearing their hairs out as they try to promote their 'Comment is free' ethos - site has been down with the 'The page cannot be displayed' message that dotcom journalists dread.
I'm feeling their pain. However, you can always go to FT.com and take part in the online Q&A with Reuters chief Tom Glocer - he's asking: what's the point of blogs?
posted by Liisa Rohumaa at 2:29 AM
2 Comments:
Liisa, may I be the last to say that I think our friends at The Guardian may have jumped the proverbial shark with their Comment Is Free wheeze?
It is not a blog, but a bloated comments column; it is promoted with the bloggish rhetoric of participation and collaboration, while it merely seeks to sustain the special status of the gilded circle who are permitted (and paid) to post articles; and it's too big!
I'm a fan of Guardian Unlimited, which has consistently pioneered ways for a newspaper brand to succeed online, but this latest idea seems at best flawed and at worst cynical.
You're right - the blogger brigade out there will be savvy to that old wheeze of dressing up a column as a blog
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