Comments on: Journalists and Weblogs: Three (No, Four) Basic Attitudes http://www.contentious.com/2005/10/26/journalists-and-weblogs-three/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:49:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Stephanie_R http://www.contentious.com/2005/10/26/journalists-and-weblogs-three/#comment-40414 Stephanie_R Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:05:22 +0000 #comment-40414 It's in that conversation that we as a Blogosphere learn. But before we can start the conversation, first we need something to talk about. And this is where Journalists deliver: a clear majority of the top fifty links every day are written by Journalists and published in Big Media newspapers and magazines. Journalists are quickly learning what sort of stories attract attention from the Blogosphere. For Farhad of Wired News, "there are two things I write about that are 'dangerous': Apple Computer and Weblogs." That provides Farhad even more incentive to get the story right. "I have a few hours to write my stories. Weblogs have a few days to tell me what I got wrong." It’s in that conversation that we as a Blogosphere learn. But before we can start the conversation, first we need something to talk about. And this is where Journalists deliver: a clear majority of the top fifty links every day are written by Journalists and published in Big Media newspapers and magazines.

Journalists are quickly learning what sort of stories attract attention from the Blogosphere. For Farhad of Wired News, “there are two things I write about that are ‘dangerous’: Apple Computer and Weblogs.” That provides Farhad even more incentive to get the story right. “I have a few hours to write my stories. Weblogs have a few days to tell me what I got wrong.”

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