Converge considered
I blogged a little about the sessions that I attended at the ConvergeSouth conference on Saturday. After seeing the discussion at the News and Observer Editor’s blog, I wish I could have made it over on Friday too. There NandO editor Melanie Sill opines on the filtering role of newspapers based in part on her reaction to Ted Vaden’s blogging about Jay Rosen’s talk at Converge (got all of that? good because there’s more).
But Sill hears back from Rosen in the comments (and others). There’s also a broken Trackback to Ed Cone’s blog.
Now that’s blogging for you.
I finally read Melanie Sill’s blog. All I can say is defensive, defensive, defensive. I was disappointed this weekend because, in addition to the attacking, the best defense was turning the pointing finger back at the accuser. I thought the purpose of the conference was to meet at some middle ground between journalism and blogging, and instead it turned into food fight.
Comment by robin — October 12, 2005 @ 2:44 am
My comments on Rosen’s comment - He did say a few things to disparage “on-the-ground” reporters. First he said he barely ever grants interviews anymore: “It’s a waste of time,” he said, “for me to spend 45 minutes with a reporter when they only use 12 words.” (was that 12?)
And he absolutely said he and other bloggers hold themselves to higher standards than the mainstream media. He later revised his statement to say “stricter” standards.
I’m not trying to sensationalize anything, but he did come across as disdainful of the print media.
Comment by robin — October 12, 2005 @ 2:56 am
I have been catching up on my blog reading tonight and you all might be interested to read what Dave Johnson, developer of Sun’s blog software, writes about community building from the converge south conference.
http://rollerweblogger.org/page/roller?entry=converge_trip_report_1_blogs
He mentions Dave Winer’s cynical take on community building–more eyeballs, and he has a better answer–” I’d say the point of blog-based community building is to work towards the shared goals of a community whether that is to change local politics, share good writing, or build and support a great open source operating system.”
Comment by karen — October 24, 2005 @ 12:14 am