'BLOGGERS' SOW SEEDS FOR NEW JOURNALISM

(USA) -- Move over, traditional journalists, says Online
Journalism Review senior columnist J.D. Lasica. Better make room for a
growing cadre of amateurs who are sowing the seeds for new forms of
journalism, public discourse, interactivity and online community. They're
called Webloggers, or "bloggers" and their sites (called blogs) consist of
a running commentary with pointers to other sites. Some cover entire
industries by providing quick bursts of news with links to full stories,
but most are simply personal journals with links on a favorite subject.
Professional journalists are often too-quick to dismiss the new breed,
says author and blogger Paul Andrews: "Journalists testing the new waters
are ... bound to wreak havoc on institutionalized media. ... Where the
Weblog changes the nature of 'news' is in the migration of information
from the personal to the public. ... Hit the 'post' button and any
personal writing becomes published writing." Further, adds Glenn
Fleishman, a free-lance reporter for respected national publications and a
computer columnist for The Seattle Times, Weblogs are taken more seriously
than a static Web page: "It's this gem, this nut, that people interact
with differently. A Weblog gives off a patina of credibility and
authoritativeness that you don't find in other corners of the Web."
(Online Journalism Review 24 May 2001)
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