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To: tekboy who wrote (24071)	4/9/2002 10:58:26 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Dr. Manhattan has read today's NY Times editorial, and he dissects it, piece by unflattering piece: blissfulknowledge.blogspot.com

To: tekboy who wrote (24071)	4/9/2002 11:22:31 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"blogger" is a recent coinage used to describe someone who maintains a web log, that is, a frequently-updated, publicly available online diary or collection of musings. Hmmm. Going back up the chain, we find a ref to this tekboy-esque definition: quinion.com A blogger is a person who keeps a Web log, or blog for short. The idea started sometime in 1998, but really caught on in 2000, to the extent that there are now thousands of bloggers and blogs about. In case anybody thinks this is sneaking in under the radar, the good gray Times picked up the trail a month and a half ago, leading with yet another concise summary Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad nytimes.com For the last two years or so, so-called Weblogs have slowly built a following among Internet users who like to dash off a few random thoughts, post them on a Web site and read similar musings by others. In the last two months, the universe of Weblogs has grown more quickly, with mainstream media analysts praising "blogs," as the sites are known, for bringing a new type of expression to the Internet, and perhaps undermining the hegemony of global media giants. Undermining the hegemony of global media giants? In the bloggers' dreams, I guess. Anybody getting their news that way is in somewhat worse shape than the local bloviating pundit junkies. The NYT apparently having made a deal with google to purge direct indexing of their articles, I had to pick that link up indirectly, through this apparent meta-blogger site: microcontentnews.com , which had this amusing lead: It's almost become a game in the weblog community: the Mass Media press offers up a new article about weblogs, and within minutes bloggers have pounced on the article, savaging it with brutal critiques and commentary. A recent article by John Dvorak (of PC Magazine) demonstrates the pattern: a traditional journalist comes across weblogs for the first time, and writes an enthusiastic piece about the "proliferation of public diaries". Little does he know that he's a lamb heading for the slaughter. Weblogs and magazines immediately shred the piece, condemning it as "shallow" and "inaccurate". Other weblogs pile on with their own brutal assessments: "[W]hat this piece really needed was an editor to kill it." After a day or two of frenzied feeding, the bloody carcass of a once proud journalist is left to be picked over on Blogdex. Microcontent sounds about right.