by Debbie Weil | Oct 5, 2003 | Events, Stuff, Uncategorized
Provocative discussion in the first panel this morning – the last day of BlogCon 2003. Halley Suitt invited feedback on her case study published in the Sept. 2003 issue of Harvard Business Review: “A blogger in our midst… ” Briefly, the case...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 4, 2003 | Events, Stuff, Uncategorized
I sat next to Adam Curry at lunch. Totally clueless… didn’t know he’s FAMOUS. Most notably as ex-MTV VJ. So there I am saying stupid things about actress Demi Moore and her 25-year-old boyfriend and how “obscene†(yes, I used that word) it is for them to...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 4, 2003 | Events, Stuff, Uncategorized
Great discussion by this second panel on blogging as a tool to teach writing. First you think (yeah, writing starts with thinking), then you draft, re-write, maybe rewrite again, check for accuracy, polish, then publish. If your post gets comments, you might respond...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 4, 2003 | Events, Stuff, Uncategorized
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...
by Debbie Weil | Oct 4, 2003 | Events, Stuff, Uncategorized
Glenn Reynolds was awfully interesting on the first panel. Must admit I haven’t been a regular reader of his Instapundit blog. But he’s a good thinker, a good writer and hence a good commentator. He gets it. He’s a law professor and not a journalist....
by Debbie Weil | Oct 4, 2003 | Events, Stuff, Uncategorized
I’m blogging live from BlogCon (they finally got the “Internet to work” as Dave Winer put it). Someone behind me just made a great comment: Journalistic Weblogs make you think. You have to be a savvy meda consumer in order to read blogs. You have to...
