Comments on: Commentariat v. bloggertariat

By: The best of the We Are Social blog, 2009 / we are social

The best of the We Are Social blog, 2009 / we are social — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:07:14 +0000

[...] Commentariat v. bloggertariat Chris makes an impassioned case about how mainstream media views social media and how it should be adapting to it. [...]

By: Social media: threat or opportunity? / we are social

Social media: threat or opportunity? / we are social — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:04:42 +0000

[...] chimes with something I noted in another blog post I wrote on social v. traditional media, witnessing at least one journalist declaring the basic [...]

By: Chris Applegate

Chris Applegate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:15:45 +0000

Hi everyone – thanks for your comments, sorry for the late delay in replying (I was away at the Glastonbury festival and offline…) What Phil says about traditional media outlets doing both traditional news and blogging is very much on the mark. I think journalists should blog more – and by blog I don't mean just “have something in blog format”, but blog as a practice – link out & quote other blogs, respond to their readers, work in the near-realtime of the blogosphere.

I also agree with sam on the point on it being hard to find good blogs – to some extent, the link economy of blogging works – the better the blog, the more links – but the internet's systemic bias to high-tech and breaking news/gossip can distort this. No-one has yet really cracked how to better navigate the long(ish) tail – Technorati was a good start but hasn't really progressed much in the past few years (a lifetime in online time)

By: Chris Applegate

Chris Applegate — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:15:45 +0000

By: superdeluxesam

superdeluxesam — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:59:04 +0000

I think anyone who spends a decent amount of time online knows that the blogs are as varied as the people that write them. Which means it's easy for critics to pick out disingenuous examples that make blogging look bad. One of the biggest issues with blogging is probably just having to wade through all the crap to find good articles, especially if you're not adept at doing so.

I've no doubt that blogging will wane somewhat vs other more nuanced forms of online expression, but hopefully that will just mean that what remains is of a better quality. Long form writing still has it's place in online commentary and will continue to do so for the foreseeable. Both bloggers and journalists will have a valuable part to play in this.

By: ron

ron — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:38:35 +0000

Wow, what a bunch of cocks.

By: Editorial Intelligence: Bloggers versus the Commentariat debate | Slugger Consults

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:30:38 +0000

[...] last night) is that anyone who thinks they are is a fool. The more important point though is well made by Chris Applegate on his blog today: Letting your lawyers, rather than your community managers, be the arbiters of [...]

By: Jamie Cottrell

Jamie Cottrell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:53:47 +0000

Update: 24 June 2009 19.00
Charles Arthur writes in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/2...
Blogging: the long and short of it - The popularityof blogging may be fading as people turn to the easier aspects of social media: status updates and tweeting

By: Jamie Cottrell

Jamie Cottrell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:26:08 +0000

“…the Spectator’s Martin Bright said he couldn’t think of a single classic blog post he had ever read.”

Don't you count the Huffington Post?

By: “Commentariat vs Bloggertariat” event review by “Mark Reckons” - #eiblogger | The Wardman Wire

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:24:10 +0000

[...] have blown his chances of a Times column with his comments last night. I think he might be right! Chris Applegate also has an excellent analysis of the event on “We Are [...]