How not to go wrong about blogging

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How not to go wrong about blogging

• David Weinberger Ph.d
• self_at_evident.comHarvard Berkman Center for
  Internet and Society

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Bloggers are not trying to destroy or replace the
mass media
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Blogs are not mass media
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NY Times
CNN
News.BBC
Yahoo News
Wash. Post
Slashdot
Guardian
Plastic
BBC.com
Daventics
Wired
Suicide Girls
Salon
BoingBoing
Instapundit
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www.Shirky.com
Media view of Weblogs
Media Focus
"The Long Tail"
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The long tail isn't a straight line
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Media view of Weblogs
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We are not all writing about our cats
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What is the size of a topic?
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What is the size of a topic?
Britannica 32 volumes, 65,000 topics
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There is no one perfect definition of "blog"
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Voice
Persistence
Conversation
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Constructing a self
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The virtue of writing badly
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Blogging is a fad
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Voice
Self
Connection
Forgiveness
Passion
Conversation
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Thank you.

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