I’ve been asked to participate in a survey about weblogs and journalism and, since it’s quite a detailed survey inviting lengthy responses, I’ve decided to put my replies online as a series of micro-articles. The first one goes up today, and is mostly concerned with my personal relationship to weblogs and my reasons for maintaining one…
On Weblogs and Journalism (Part One)
People feel pretty disenfranchised from the world around them – mostly their voices – their opinions – don’t really matter in the slightest. Weblogs – for good or ill – make people feel that they’re being listened to – that their opinions matter. If that was all they did, then I’d say that was enough…