Are In-Depth Articles Better Than Blog Postings?

athloi writes to tell us usability expert Jakob Nielsen is stressing the importance of well-thought-out articles as opposed to off-the-cuff blog postings. "Blog postings will always be commodity content: there's a limit to the value you can provide with a short comment on somebody else's comments. Such postings are good for generating controversy and short-term traffic, and they're definitely easy to write. But they don't build sustainable value. Think of how disappointing it feels when you're searching for something and get directed to short postings in the middle of a debate that occurred years before, and is thus irrelevant."

Comments

There it is!

[fishthegeek]

That's the difference between Digg and /. I've always considered digg to have a somewhat adhd interface, and it is the incredibly self serving diggs of various "geektechblog-o-matic" fourteen sentence blogs that turns me off. On slashdot the slashvertisements and blog submissions usually will get an editor flamed, and I think that it cuts down on the noise a lot. I love this poll... I pick "Cowboy Neals Blog of Artilces Blogged by Article Writers"

Re:The difference

[Oligonicella]

You display your ignorance. There are blogs by noted authorities which are anything but what you say. Check out The Volokh Conspiracy. Same for Dinocrat and others.