Tuesday, March 21, 2006
O'Malley!
Heh. Heh.
The audience was heavily populated by geeks whose idea of news is the latest wrinkle in electronic technology, but included a number of members who also have some connection to the real world, including reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle and the Contra Costa Times.
An amazing thing to hear from Becky O'Malley, who lives in a bubble even for Berkeley.
Although there's a lot of good stuff on the Web if you know where to look, much of Blogsville is inhabited by people who haven't quit their day jobs, and have not much to offer except opinion within a narrow range of experience.
In the real blogsville (not the one I chill in), this is accurate, though in the opposite way that O'Malley thinks. Indiviudally, blogs are useless. Collectively, they are an expert on every topic. The incompetence and bias of the "real" reporters when it comes to actually reporting the stuff they find is now easily visible because someone in blogsville always knows better. So yeah, we need journalists to gather news, we just don't need them to report it anymore.
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