David Weinberger makes some good points about the wee wordstorm touched off by announcing a conference at the Harvard Law School’s Shorenstein Centre on “Blogging, Journalism and Credibility “.
My emphasis added …
There’s a, shall we say, lively discussion going on over at the blog for the Berkman conference on blogs, journalism and credibility . It’s an invitation-only conference and that’s stirred a lot of questions about whether appropriately representative sets of people have been invited. Are there enough bloggers? Are they the right sort of bloggers? Some are saying that not enough big-readership bloggers are there; others say not enough “struggling” bloggers are there. I suspect there is an age skew, with an under-representation of the people under 30 who collectively are doing something remarkable with blogs to which the question of credibility makes as much sense as the question of punctuality.
But a conference is allowed to frame the question it’s interested in, and this one is about the interesting intersection of blogging and journalism, not about everything that can and should ever be said out loud about blogging.
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