Comments on: The Guardian Still Thinks Blogs Are Crap http://www.psfk.com/2006/07/the_guardian_st.html Ideas & Trends Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:15:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: rebecca http://www.psfk.com/2006/07/the_guardian_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-1757 rebecca Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1757 <p>how funny. he's burying his head in the sand. </p> <p>how does he aim to "crush the upstart" this time around?</p> how funny. he’s burying his head in the sand.

how does he aim to “crush the upstart” this time around?

]]> By: Victor Keegan http://www.psfk.com/2006/07/the_guardian_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-1758 Victor Keegan Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1758 <p>I am not reading this because it can't be important. Vic</p> I am not reading this because it can’t be important. Vic

]]> By: Piers Fawkes http://www.psfk.com/2006/07/the_guardian_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-1759 Piers Fawkes Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1759 <p>More MSM vs the Portals news:<br /> http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/07/dailies_strike.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_techbeat</p> More MSM vs the Portals news:
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/07/dailies_strike.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_techbeat

]]> By: Charles http://www.psfk.com/2006/07/the_guardian_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-1760 Charles Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1760 <p>You underestimate the amount of checking and thinking and journalism that goes into producing a daily paper. Significantly.</p> <p>Digg might not have stories about new silicone - but then, perhaps lipstick.com (Digg for celeb stories) does. Digg has its equivalent, because it's for geeks. So you get tales about how to do ... stuff that's as in-geeky as the downmarket stories in The Sun.</p> <p>And - name me some stories that OhMyNews has broken. Point me to some news organisations that are setting themselves up in the same way.</p> <p>Putting a newspaper together really is not simple aggregation. If it were, there would be a lot more newspapers.</p> <p>And emphatically - the Guardian does not think blogs are crap. If it did, why would it have so many itself? Vic is making the key point: that the wisdom of crowds quickly degenerates into the madness or obsession of crowds. It's Life Of Brian all over again: don't all run after your newest Brian (Digg? Ohmynews? del.icio.us?) clutching the holy sandal and the gourd.</p> <p>I read a lot of blogs, and it really is panning for gold. There's an awful lot which has to go down the river in the meantime.</p> <p>Sure, people turn to blogs before the news, because they find opinions they like on blogs. But they turn to the news for their news. And blogs turn to the MSM too for their news, in the great majority of cases.</p> You underestimate the amount of checking and thinking and journalism that goes into producing a daily paper. Significantly.

Digg might not have stories about new silicone – but then, perhaps lipstick.com (Digg for celeb stories) does. Digg has its equivalent, because it’s for geeks. So you get tales about how to do … stuff that’s as in-geeky as the downmarket stories in The Sun.

And – name me some stories that OhMyNews has broken. Point me to some news organisations that are setting themselves up in the same way.

Putting a newspaper together really is not simple aggregation. If it were, there would be a lot more newspapers.

And emphatically – the Guardian does not think blogs are crap. If it did, why would it have so many itself? Vic is making the key point: that the wisdom of crowds quickly degenerates into the madness or obsession of crowds. It’s Life Of Brian all over again: don’t all run after your newest Brian (Digg? Ohmynews? del.icio.us?) clutching the holy sandal and the gourd.

I read a lot of blogs, and it really is panning for gold. There’s an awful lot which has to go down the river in the meantime.

Sure, people turn to blogs before the news, because they find opinions they like on blogs. But they turn to the news for their news. And blogs turn to the MSM too for their news, in the great majority of cases.

]]> By: PSFK http://www.psfk.com/2006/07/the_guardian_st.html/comment-page-1#comment-1761 PSFK Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1761 <strong>People Choose Blogs for Urgent News Over Mainstream Media</strong> One of the points made in last week's post "The Guardian Still Thinks Blogs Are Crap" was that people are beginning to turn to blogs before they turn to the mainstream media. A story on how Indians around the world turned to the blogs after last week's... People Choose Blogs for Urgent News Over Mainstream Media

One of the points made in last week’s post “The Guardian Still Thinks Blogs Are Crap” was that people are beginning to turn to blogs before they turn to the mainstream media. A story on how Indians around the world turned to the blogs after last week’s…

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