| Blog Entry - Wednesday, March 10th, 2004 | Add / Read (4) |
There's a Scobleizer blog entry linking to another blog about blogging boundaries. I find this pretty interesting. When you talk to people or do things with people who you know write a blog, do you think about whether they might blog what you discuss? Do you consider whether you want them to or not?
What about your personal blogging boundaries? Most people have boundaries somewhere, with how personal they get, especially in a "pseudo-work" blog. I think some people's families control their blogging boundaries, with concerns over what they might blog. How do you decide what your own boundaries are?
Looking at it another way, I know that some journalists have requested people they interview *not* blog the topic they're discussing. I guess they don't want their thunder stolen, or maybe they're just worried that they'll get it wrong and will be chastised by the blogger. I guess it's fair -- they can ask a person to do whatever they like as a condition of choosing to talk to them -- but it seems like they're trying to control the push of blogging into journalism... Which I suspect is both foolish (wouldn't they like to have the hits that a busy blog might generate for their story?) and futile. As we've discussed before (although sadly the comments that used to live at Ed's site for this topic are gone -- I guess they were lost in the move from vowe.com to PSC) blogging has an advantage over traditional journalism in terms of speed and agility, but some differences (although I won't necessarily call them disadvantages) in terms of editorial control/responsibility/trust.
Author: Libby
Posted at: 06:01:00 AM
