Following up on last week’s weblog thread,
I found this interesting point at “http://paulboutin.weblogger.com”>Paul Boutin’s site:

There are now millions of people online who will read a
clumsily written, clunkily laid out first-person web site
instead of trusting anything that looks like "the media" to
them. Are they excessively cynical? Sure. But if you want to
communicate effectively with someone, you have to do it on their
terms, not yours.

Paul’s a senior editor at “http://www.wired.com”>Wired magazine. He’s currently musing
about how to get a “http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2001 00:00:00 AM/10/10″>weblog into
Afghanistan.

Partly because I enjoy intellectual debate, and partly because
I’m a masochist, I threw my hat in the ring over at the “http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webloggerusergroup”>weblogger
user group list. To clarify one point: I am not
saying weblogging is not journalism. That’s silly. I just feel
that if weblogs are ready to provide a serious counterpoint to
big media, weblogs should be ready to be show some
accountability.

Still, a few people have emailed me privately, stating they are
shocked — shocked! — that I would ever suggest we be
responsible webloggers. How dare I impugn free speech?

scottandrew.com: representing the devil since 1999.

PS: did you notice how today’s post had
nothing to do with DHTML? See? Trust no one!

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