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This thread started after sciencediet asked the question heard round the web, "What's a blog?" and encouraged me to post my response as a new subject for discussion. I was shocked after doing a FR search to see so little on the subject. So here it is with a non-vanity article to kick it off

Maybe we can petition JimRob to read this and make some permanent links on the front page (the right hand side would be perfect) to the best blogs for FReepers to check out. We need to roll with the times and not just change the graphics. The Internet has moved into a new phase when it comes to alternative news and reporting. It would lead to posts of more good articles that we might otherwise miss, and more people might start blogs as the best place for their vanity posts as TLBSHOW mentioned. It would also lead to more people linking to ideas and articles from FReepers

Blogging to make FR better -- list your ideas, favorite blogs, and bloggers below.

A few of my favorites to start with:

Updated link for Instapundit

The Corner on NRO

Little Green Footballs

Right Wing News

JunkYardBlog

Global News Watch

and finally Daypop where you can search 7500 News Sites and Weblogs for Current Events and Breaking News

Blogger = YASITFIAM

Yet Another Silly Internet Term Forgoten In A Month.

ping

He's fair, funny and a friend.

"Tom Tomorrow" is obsessed with conspiracy crap and Rush Limbaugh and obviously fake stuff about George Bush.

There is something wrong with him. What's worse is he is taken seriously by major media and the mainstream when what he addresses are his own mental problems.

That is one of the scariest things about this nation over the past decade or two. A huge disconnect from reality and obsessional thinking is becoming the norm.

Angry Clam, though he hasn't updated in a long time

Thursday, April 11, 2002

Are Bloggers Journalists?

On the rise of Amateur Journalism and the need for a Blogging Code of Ethics

by John Hiler

Sometimes a blog is just a blog.

But sometimes it's not, and the line between weblogs and journalism begins to blur. Just the other day, I was talking to a "real journalist": a friend of mine who freelances for the Economist and Red Herring. I explained to him what I was doing with Microcontent News, writing articles about weblogs and personal publishing.

Then I made the mistake of referring to what I was doing as an example of "online journalism".

"Wait, how can that be real journalism?" he interrupted. "You're totally biased because you work in the industry. A lot of journalists don't even register with a political party so they can write about politics objectively!" And that was just the beginning of my crimes against journalism: "You don't even have an editor, so none of your articles are even peer-reviewed!"

My friend had a point: real journalists benefit greatly from objectivity and peer-review. But weblogs are powerful for exactly the opposite reasons: they allow opinionated bloggers to post to the web without an editor. Depending on your point of view, this lack of objectivity and peer-review is either weblogs' greatest strength or their greatest weakness.

Nowhere is this conflict more in evidence than in the world of Journalism. As weblogs start to break stories and deliver analysis from industry insiders, they're coming up against many of the same conflicts that Journalists addressed years ago with their famous Code of Ethics. It's a catch-22: if all bloggers followed the Journalism Code of Ethics, their blogs would be objective and edited... but would they still be blogs?

Or put another way: can blogs contribute responsibly to the world of journalism, if they don't follow the Journalism Code of Ethics? And if the Journalism Code of Ethics isn't relevant to weblogs, is there a Blogging Code of Ethics that is? Rest of the article here: Microcontent News.

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As far as I'm concerned, the biggest blog site with the most bloggers is right here on good 'ol Free Republic!!!!

Here, everyone can be a blogger. And talk about peer review, you're flamed, lauded, ignored, or laughed at in about two seconds! Yup, nothing beats the opinions and discourse of Free Republic!

Whenever I hear the term "bloggers" I think of a bunch of english guys who would be soccer hooligans but 30 years of alcohol abuse has left them frail and quivering and unable to get off their bar stool to find a Belgian soccer fan to beat up.

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