EDIT ME, PLEASE

Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com made a great comment: Some journalistic bloggers prefer to be edited. Otherwise you’re “working without a net.” An editor is another brain, another person to bounce your writing off. Whether or not a Weblog should be edited is a sticky question. If, as conference chair Dave Winer put it, “A blog is the unedited voice of a person, then how do you edit it?” Dave started off the morning by saying the “editing question” is one of his hot topics. It’s one of mine too. I edit my own posts heavily. I try and do it while still in “draft” mode. But I often do it after publishing when I see how it reads. I’m sure that’s poor blogging etiquette…