Comments on: Are Blogs Parasites? Maybe, But They’re Not The Only Ones http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Bloggers are parasites &emdash; so what? » mathewingram.com/media http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-19269 Bloggers are parasites &emdash; so what? » mathewingram.com/media Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:45:19 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/#comment-19269 [...] An excellent point. There are all kinds of people working for mainstream media outlets — and not just columnists, editorial writers and analysts, but often reporters too — who base a lot of what they do on the raw material provided by others, as my friend Tony Hung notes. With reporters, it is often the work of wire services such as Reuters or Bloomberg, which tend to get a lot less credit for their role than they probably should in many cases. [...] [...] An excellent point. There are all kinds of people working for mainstream media outlets — and not just columnists, editorial writers and analysts, but often reporters too — who base a lot of what they do on the raw material provided by others, as my friend Tony Hung notes. With reporters, it is often the work of wire services such as Reuters or Bloomberg, which tend to get a lot less credit for their role than they probably should in many cases. [...]

]]> By: Ashish Mohta http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-18888 Ashish Mohta Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:07:17 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/#comment-18888 Its about how u follow the ethics.Bloggers being hated sometimes because they do have a power of acting a s a news media.Thats why they fear them.Talking about the crap i see half of the media into crap things all the time.Who cares if Brittany spears has a cough but they(media) will make it a news too. Loved the way you attacked!!! Its about how u follow the ethics.Bloggers being hated sometimes because they do have a power of acting a s a news media.Thats why they fear them.Talking about the crap i see half of the media into crap things all the time.Who cares if Brittany spears has a cough but they(media) will make it a news too.

Loved the way you attacked!!!

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]]> By: Matt Coddington http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-18851 Matt Coddington Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:59:10 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/03/02/are-blogs-parasites-maybe-but-theyre-not-the-only-ones/#comment-18851 Blogging is leaps and bounds above conventional media. Just take the tech industry for example. How many things have you seen on CNN that you didn't read hours, days, sometimes even a week or two earlier on TechCrunch? Even smaller bloggers often have news quicker, and if they don't they bring to the table a great amount of insight and opinion on the topic when they report it. The "experts" who report tech news for CNN are jokes - they are so far detached from the industry, and are usually only on there because they've written a book or two (such as "The TRUE Secrets to SEO" or "How to Make Money with eBooks!"). I'd rather read tech news on a blog written by an educated (AND INVOLVED) blogger than rehashed, ignorant bullshit on a conventional media site anyday. Does this carry over into other industries? Blogging is leaps and bounds above conventional media. Just take the tech industry for example. How many things have you seen on CNN that you didn’t read hours, days, sometimes even a week or two earlier on TechCrunch?

Even smaller bloggers often have news quicker, and if they don’t they bring to the table a great amount of insight and opinion on the topic when they report it. The “experts” who report tech news for CNN are jokes – they are so far detached from the industry, and are usually only on there because they’ve written a book or two (such as “The TRUE Secrets to SEO” or “How to Make Money with eBooks!”).

I’d rather read tech news on a blog written by an educated (AND INVOLVED) blogger than rehashed, ignorant bullshit on a conventional media site anyday.

Does this carry over into other industries?

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