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July 30, 2004 Convention Bloggers and the Future • posted by Dan Gillmor 11:52 AM • permanent link to this item For all the occasional self-absorption and recursive coverage of coverage of blogging at the Democratic National Convention, it's clear that the experiment must be chalked up as a success. The bloggers' work ranged from abysmal to terrific, sort of like traditional journalism. What's important to keep in mind is that this was one of those moments when things pivot slightly. The accreditation of bloggers to the convention was an affirmation by a highly centralized hierarchy -- the Democratic Party -- of an evolving kind of information flow. That the even more centralized Republican Party has felt obliged to include bloggers is evidence of the shift. Comments The Democratic Party is "a highly centralized hierarchy"? That's the funniest thing I've read all day. Okay, maybe compared to, say, Burning Man. Or the Pacific Ocean. But rigorous top-down control has not, historically, been high on the list of things people associate with us... Posted by: Patrick Nielsen Hayden on July 30, 2004 05:23 PM Do you have any links to "terrific" blogger coverage of the convention, aside from Rosen/Layne/Blair/Welch? Most of the blogger "coverage" was awful. Posted by: Dexter Westbrook on August 5, 2004 11:18 AM Disclaimer Although we do not have any obligation to monitor reader comments posted to this Weblog , we reserve the right at all times to review them and to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us in our sole discretion and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We also reserve the right to permanently block any user who violates these terms and conditions. ż Copyright 2003 Knight Ridder. All Rights Reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of any of the contents of this service without the express written consent of Knight Ridder is expressly prohibited. |
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"The accreditation of bloggers to the convention was an affirmation by a highly centralized hierarchy -- the Democratic Party -- of an evolving kind of information flow."
I'm not sure I understand this sentence. Do you mean something about centralized versus not, or that this merely indicated that punditry is being done on web sites as well as TV stations?
That is, is the information flow evolving *structurally*, or only *territorially*?
Note this is not the same thing - the punditry is still just about as highly centralized as ever ("A-list"). It's just being written in different areas (but by the same *types* of people).
Posted by: Seth Finkelstein on July 30, 2004 03:18 PM