UK zum Dritten für heute. Zitat aus “New ideas in law: The geek shall inherit…”:
At its best, blogging adds expert analysis and frankly delivered insider knowledge to the wider narrative. In many cases the medium has introduced more diverse views and fresh voices and, in the process, often exposed the blandness and fatuity of resource-starved journalism – or ‘churnalism’ as many bloggers deride it.
However, at its worst, the blog is responsible for plenty of lazy, self-indulgent, uncritical – and clearly unedited – writing. And because of the self-reinforcing nature of the medium – with bloggers often operating in online communities of shared interest that can be heavy on mutual backslapping – poor blogs often receive a level of encouragement that their authors would be unlikely to encounter in the outside world. The danger is that these people, inflated by misplaced confidence, drown out the genuine talent that exists in the blogosphere.
Am Ende des informativen Artikels steht eine interessante “Blawger roll of honour: some good, some popular, some both“. Die dort erwähnten Blogs Jack of Kent und UK Supreme Court lese ich gern. Insgesamt eine recht gut recherchierte Übersicht, nur: Warum muss jeder zweite Artikel über Blawgs das Thema Geekism strapazieren, nur um dann darzulegen, dass es keines ist?
Kommentare