[ Substantial two-page feature in Sunday's N&O on blogging-
many illustrations and sidebars]
Rules to blog by
What should the parameters be for online authors?
By Eric Ferreri, Staff Writer, N&O, Published: Oct 22, 2006 12:00 AM
As his fledgling Internet blog analyzing the Duke lacrosse case grew in popularity, KC Johnson made a conscious decision to hold himself to the same intellectual standards while blogging that he lives by at his day job as a college professor in New York.
"I have my own professional reputation within higher education," Johnson said recently. "If I produce something on the Web that's all rumor and innuendo ... that's going to reflect badly on me." -jump-
Johnson, the college professor who blogs about the Duke lacrosse case, believes in the value of unvarnished truth. A Maine native who teaches history at Brooklyn College, Johnson, 38, has no tie to Durham aside from a few visits over the years. Nevertheless, he has fixated on the enormously high-profile Duke lacrosse case, turning his own outrage over District Attorney Mike Nifong's handling of it into a lively, popular and occasionally scathing blog through which he posts daily critiques and criticisms of Nifong, other players in the case and the media.
He spends a couple of hours each day working on the blog, which, he said, is read by between 15,000 and 20,000 people each week. His blog entries are heavy with detail culled from public records. On occasion, he has corrected errors on his blog.
"If I was going to do this blog, it had to be as good as I could possibly make it," he said recently. "You can't put up wrong things and expect your product to be treated seriously."
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* Wonder who it was Newsweek's Meadows "was still trying to get a hold of?"
Maybe Footlick and her will start reading some blogs and boards- better late than never.