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

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.

Learning from slashdot...

[CtrlPhreak]

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

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."

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.