Dale Dougherty: 'Journalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken'
Dale Dougherty over at O'Reilly Radar says the way Blogger Scott Beale told the story of the early and unexpected burning of Burning Man on his LaughingSquid blog illustrates how effective blogs can be in following a breaking story. See "Journalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken."
"He reported the story by updating the blog over time," Dougherty notes, adding: "The practice is not unusual for bloggers. Revising or appending an update after the main or original story is fairly common.
"However," Dougherty wrote, "as this particular story grew and grew, Scott decided to keep adding more and more updates to the same blog post instead of creating new and separate posts each day. As of late today [August 31, 2007], he had twenty-four updates, each one adding some new piece of information to the story or linking to others and it was playing out elsewhere. The last update I read was a link to a Jimmy Kimmel segment where he's making fun of the story."
I found Dougherty's post worth reading.
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