Nobody seemed to congratulate the authors on a job well done, or expressed appreciation for all their hard work.

Aside from your thoughts, I’m willing to wager that it’s because amateur bloggers are, well, amateur. In other words, they’re not paid to write, and therefore it becomes a much bigger feat to accomplish what an amateur blogger does.

Maybe the DSM-V will feature a new section on bloggers?

but really, it is an interesting perspective, except that i disagree that most blogs are not worth being published. it gives more value to the “controlled” media than to the internet media. it is better to say that they cannot be published because they are so inheritly different.

i think the internet is the best source for information. it forces people to be more honest in their reflections because all advertising for good sites for the most part are viral. you have to have good content and treat your readers with respect. and now because the internet has connected everyone the internet has form into its little sub-community of regular users that know the same sites and have the same interests. so if you do delete a negative comment someone made, they will tell others in the community about it and soon you are flamed all over the net. journalist can not be subjected to this type of critizism with out fear of getting sued for slander.

Hey, 3 out of 100 ain’t bad!

Keep up the goof work.

I took down the post you were looking for, but can’t remember why, so I’ll repost it for you this week, maybe now.

I have mixed feelings about blogs supplanting traditional news media.

Blogs are great vehicles for personal opinion, and for discussion. When it comes to reporting the news or performing in-depth investigations, they are usually underqualified–or worse, clueless pawns in a disinformation campaign.

Take the recent feature story on energy medicine as one example. There are simply no blogs around with both the resources and the interest to tell that story. Another Seattle Times investigation, into government censorship of court settlements, cost more than $100,000 to produce. What blogger could have managed that?

Some people believe that the decentralization of news gathering will empower the common man. That is true to a limited degree. However, what myopic bloggers consider empowerment, military strategists would recognize as divide and conquer.