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• Posted by: Justin Thyme on February 5th, 2002, 9:36 AM

  Heh, I think I do it for every reason he mentioned and maybe a couple of more.

• Posted by: NJ Meryl on February 5th, 2002, 9:51 AM

  I found his article extremely shallow and condescending.

  Obviously, Dvorak comes from the school that if you didn’t go to college to learn how to write, you can’t be a writer.

  To cover the blogging phenomenon in 500 words or less, you might want to actually VISIT some blogs–which are easily found through many other places than a search engine that launches half a dozen pop-up ads when you go there. He could have started with Weblogs.com and worked from there.

  I’m feeling mighty unkindly toward Dvorak right now, let me tell you.

• Posted by: Justin Thyme on February 5th, 2002, 11:57 AM

  That was kind of my point. He reported on the obvious and didn’t bother to dig any deeper. If I were a true journalist I think I would want to interview a few ‘bloggers prior to writing such an article. Basically what he did was exactly what he accuses the bulk of ‘bloggers of doing, just writing off the cuff.

• Posted by: NJ Meryl on February 5th, 2002, 10:59 PM

  Justin, I was replying to your post, but I was doing it Dvorak-style–by not reading it first.

  

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