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I know there’s probably been enough sturm und drang about Fred Wilson’s post on journabloggers and Mike Arrington’s response, in which he calls Fred “hypocritical, wrong and conflicted,” but there’s an undercurrent behind
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1 year ago
No?
That's too bad because if you did, it would raise a huge stink, setting the table for another nerd fight, and it would also be the logical extension of this conversation.
:)
No, seriously. Good point. While I was thinking about Mad Cow disease earlier today (totally different topic), I kept on thinking about what all of this meant for the standards that we set for ourselves, when the drive for controversy is essentially a race towards the bottom.
Oh, sure, there's a self-correcting mechanism in place so that we need to have some kind of integrity (lest we be called out by fellow bloggers), but by its very nature blogging (and the reality of how and what people like to read on the Internet) doesn't really reward thoughtful, balanced and nuanced analysis -- if by "reward" you mean traffic.
t @ dji
1 year ago
rewarded with huge traffic, Tony, but I have to believe that over time
people will tend to gravitate towards the more trustworthy (and
perhaps thoughtful) blogs. I have to believe it because if I thought
otherwise then I might just stop writing altogether :-)
And it's interesting to note that the more newspapers and magazines
and other media move online, the more they are subject to the same
kinds of traffic-driven concerns and tensions between what they want
to cover or write about and what their server logs tell them people
want to read about.
1 year ago
Or, alternatively, Nick Denton's traffic-based renumeration formula for Gawker.
People act rationally. When you have a stake in things that are strictly based on eyeballs and attention, you obviously do things to get that attention, without trying to compromise your integrity -- too much.
Which is probably what you mean by "tension". :)
Cheers
t @ dji
1 year ago
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1 year ago
They don't because they know that would make boring reading & bloggers know that there's no point in having the best blog in the sphere with no-one reading it.
So here's where 'tension' & drawing a line in the middle comes in. It isn't the product of the blogger but the product of the readers which the blogger wants to keep. Readers want quality & trustworthy blogs, but they don't want them to be boring either.