Comments on: Blogging Kills Disproportionately? NYT's Story Doesn't Make the Case

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:41:55 +0000

Why take seriously? I don’t know, maybe because it’s on Page 1 of the Times?

By: Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:01:54 +0000

Sorry to be weighing in so late … the story was hilarious! My students loved it. Why is everyone taking it so seriously?

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:04:28 +0000

Dan, regarding “certainly implied disproportionate” – how many many blog-evangelism articles *imply* great success for bloggers in general, and when a critics calls out the evangelist on it, the critic will get personally attacked by an A-lister denying the implication? After all, just because one talks about the big winners, how such-as-such is heard and powerful and influencial, why would that be a basis to infer that bloggers are, err, “disproportionately” influencial?

But let someone write about a downside affecting the BigHeads … well, that’s different.

By: Delia

Delia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:46:13 +0000

Dan&Seth: I don’t think the issue can be presented in *general terms* — it’s WAY too varied… might just as well ask, “Is *reading* killing us?” — it all depends what are you reading and how you react to it, doesn’t it? it may well give heart attacks to some of people… D.

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:27:44 +0000

Come on, Seth — it was a trend story that certainly implied disproportionate deaths even if it didn’t say so outright, “to be sure” language notwithstanding…

By: Delia

Delia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:26:20 +0000

Seth,

Don’t you think it’s a legitimate concern? for *some* blogging/blogers? The issue could definitely be better framed but it is one worth talking about… I think.

Delia

By: Delia

Delia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:18:44 +0000

Dan,

I’m a bit confused about the “other Delia” that started to post on this blog while I was taking a break. No, I don’t have exclusive claim to my first name but I found it strange that that name is not present on her blog anywhere I could see, yet she uses it to post here.

Delia

P.S. Not necessarily ill intended, of course, just seems odd to me… D.

By: Delia

Delia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:05:55 +0000

Dan,

It seems to me that the issue is poorly defined: what *kind* of blogging?… it can be an enjoyable walk in the park or a recurrent nightmare and probably pretty much everything in between — all in a day of blogging.

Delia

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:04:58 +0000

Did you see the word “disproportionately” in the story? I didn’t.

This whole brouhaha was another example of blog-evangelist tactics, pummel anything that isn’t gushing praise of blogging.

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