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.

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Not REAL journalism

[LinuxInDallas]

Be careful what you say in your online site. After all, we all know that you have to be paid in order for it to be considered REAL journalism with 1st ammendment protection...

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/15/ 16 24241&mode=thread&tid=153

This may be a great thing. It somewhat officially broadens what an important institution considers journalism.

Re:Journalism yes

[Anonymous Coward]

I certainly think of it as journalism.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

In a story posted by michael, no less!!! Haha, you karmawhore.

Thank you, that is all.

Learning from slashdot...

[CtrlPhreak]

Forget the class and just take a basic class on spelling and grammer!

Re:Learning from slashdot...

[jkramar]

>Forget the class and just take a basic class on spelling and grammer!

I'll see you "their!" Don't forget about that "grammer" part. There is evil afoot, and Oxford and Webster have conspired to delude you into believing that there is no such word as "grammer." Take no heed! Sally forth!

Re:Learning from slashdot...

[Anonymous Coward]

ah would, ah really would, but mah grammer's in the kitchen cookin' dinner..

Re:Slashdot a blog?

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree. Slashdot is a portal. Just like my asshole is a portal

I don't know which is funnier...

[anthony_dipierro]

Calling slashdot a blog, or calling it journalism.

Re:"Blogging"

[outlier]

from The Brunching Shuttlecocks' (funny) weblog FAQK:

How is [a weblog] different from an online journal?

Weblogs do not contain little graphics at the end of each entry telling you that the author is "feeling bummed."

Re:Blogs and Cat People

[Anonymous Coward]

out walking their dogs (and possibly socializing with other people out walking their dogs), of course!

not sitting at their PCs yelling at their cats for walking on the keyboard while they're trying to blog ;-)

Re:Journalism yes

[Bob Finklestein]

I don't know about calling it journalism... Sure, Slashdot is definately where I get the (vast) majority of tech news, but all that news is just harvested from other sites, isn't it? Slashdot is to the New York times as Readers Digest is to magazines. (Sort of, you get what I mean) On a side note, I'm going to concur with just about everyone else in saying that calling Slashdot a Blog is definately a misuse of the term. It's not someone's journal. That's a Blog.

All Your Base Is Blog To Us

[serutan]

For those of us old enough to remember, the corp-blog phenomenon could turn into an amusing rerun of the mainstreaming of sixties hippie culture by seventies marketing weenies. Macromedia's phrase "the blog strategy" sort of tells it all. The most important thing is sincerity... if you can fake that you've got it made.

We're gonna need a new buzzword pretty soon that means "painfully lame yet expertly produced synthetic blog". I can't think of one at the moment, but then I don't even know what "leet" means.

Hey chicks and dudes, let's rap!

Re:Meaning of blog is fine, dammit

[Simon Brooke]

French, constantly try to impose ridiculous rules on the language. For instance, "chat" has taken hold as the French word for Internet chatting.

So let me get this right. The English translation of the French word for on line chatting is 'pussy'? This merely confirms what the English have always suspected about the French.