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March 7, 2005

Getting into it…

If you haven’t checked them out lately, my students are really getting into the blogging thing on Bang It Out! and The Golden Mean.

Posted by acline | March 7, 2005 | Posted in: Blogging |

Sven March 7th, 2005 at 9:59 am

Yes, indeed, they are. Looks like they’re wrestling a lot with the question of “blogger vs. journalist.”

I came across this interesting description from blogger Matthew Yglesias, describing a panel he’d been on with the WaPo’s Mike Allen:

A good news reporter, on my revised view, tries to “lead a horse to water,” while a blogger is more likely to try and “throw the horse in the lake.”
Sisyphus March 9th, 2005 at 7:29 am

Left two comments for posts at “The Golden Mean” and neither have been “approved” for days despite using my Typepad account.

Lost interest now.
acline March 9th, 2005 at 9:39 am

Hmmmmm…the way I have it set up (or at least the way I think I have it set up) there is no other approval process than signing into TypeKey.

I’ll take a look. Thanks for the heads-up!