Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Blogging In Boston
(CBS) Along with the thousands of traditionally accredited print, radio and TV journalists descending on the Democratic Convention in Boston this week are 34 individuals who are credentialed as "bloggers."
Bloggers are also expected to be credentialed for the Republican National Convention, set for August 30th through September 2nd in New York.
Blogs, says Dan Gillmor, in his new book "We The Media," represent an "evolution - from journalism as lecture to journalism as conversation."
Bloggers are, in a sense, citizen journalists.
David Weinberger is a freelance writer and self-proclaimed political activist who will be blogging the Democratic Convention for Boston.com. Weinberger does not feel obligated to provide "comprehensive objective news reporting of all that goes on because that's being done for us by the media."
Bloggers, he says "are citizens who are going in order to report back what strikes us as interesting and important and in general to do that for people we think of as our friends."
(CBS) Along with the thousands of traditionally accredited print, radio and TV journalists descending on the Democratic Convention in Boston this week are 34 individuals who are credentialed as "bloggers."
Bloggers are also expected to be credentialed for the Republican National Convention, set for August 30th through September 2nd in New York.
Blogs, says Dan Gillmor, in his new book "We The Media," represent an "evolution - from journalism as lecture to journalism as conversation."
Bloggers are, in a sense, citizen journalists.
David Weinberger is a freelance writer and self-proclaimed political activist who will be blogging the Democratic Convention for Boston.com. Weinberger does not feel obligated to provide "comprehensive objective news reporting of all that goes on because that's being done for us by the media."
Bloggers, he says "are citizens who are going in order to report back what strikes us as interesting and important and in general to do that for people we think of as our friends."
