Blogging for Dummies?

Guinnessy writes "Wired News reports that one of the most respected journalism schools in America is going to be teaching blogging as part of next semester's course. I find this quite interesting, especially considering the existing controversy over whether blogging, such as Slashdot, is real journalism or not. I still haven't made up my mind." "Blog" now takes the cake as the most ill-used word of 2002. Please draw distinctions between webpages with news, mindless link propagation, discussion sites, personal diaries or journals, etc.

Comments

Gah!

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone who is confused as to whether or not slashdot is real journalism definitely is in need of education.

Professional?!

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of crack are you smoking? Slashdot is about as professional as a Perl script. The janitors don't check to see if linked stories are in any way valid. The janitors don't check for duplicate stories. The janitors post blatant trolls and flamebait. The janitors are hypocritical dumbfucks who encourage users to commit crimes. The janitors can't even be bothered to spellcheck their own posts!

Oh, and "blog" isn't an acronym, you fucktard. It's short for "weblog." So don't write it in CAPS, newbie.

-- The_Messenger

Re:Slashdot a Blog?

[scott1853]

Call me an old fart (25), but back in the day when data transfer was 2400bps, things like this were called Message Boards. Now I know that it's not hip to allow two english words to come together to form the name of a technical entity, but we still use the term "newsgroups" now don't we.

So maybe we can shorten Messages Boards or acronymize it so it's cool:

Message Boards

Message Boards

Message Boards

There ya go. From now on things like this will be called Mebo's. That can be next years stupid term. Dibs on the trademarks though ;]