25th Jan 2004
What’s a ‘Blog’?
I just got through listening to the special NPR show The Blogging of the President 2004. It was generally interesting, if a bit “inside baseball,” to use the host’s own phrase. Yes, we bloggers do love talking about blogs, but after you’ve had that conversation hundreds of time, it gets a bit old. I thought the most interesting parts of the conversation were from the non-bloggers in the discussion, such as New York Times columnist Frank Rich would could provide a bit of outsiders’ perspective
One thing that really struck me as to the “preaching to the choir” character of the discussion was that the program opened with a bunch of man-on-the-street interviews of people in Minnesota who had no idea what “blog” meant, yet then the host, Christopher Lydon, immediately then launched into going on about how great blogs are and they’re changing the world, etc., without ever defining the term until 50 minutes into the program when some listener called in with that most obvious of questions.
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