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By: Procopio

Procopio — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:21:23 +0000

We all commit mistakes. We all have sometimes
false perceptions of things and events. It is
very welcome for us to know other people’s opinions.
It is okay, if we dont prevail in our
opinions and arguments. Somebody may have better
outlook of things. Think before you Blog…Dont
contribute your Ignorance to the Blogosphere.

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The Marocharim Experiment » Cargo Cult Blogging — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:27:17 +0000

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By: DJB

DJB — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:31:58 +0000

Sure ManuelV,
I agree and concede: it would be better to accurately quote people, and best that when that does not happen, we admit it and correct our mistakes, even when that mistake is not to have admitted it to begin with. Thanks.

By: ManuelV

ManuelV — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:29:46 +0000

Okay, DJB... here it is: Do you not agree that it would be better to accurately quote people, especially when using phrases like "she was just saying..." or "...he actually said..."? I mean, especially when it can be easily verified by simply watching and listening to the video? Thanks.

By: DJB

DJB — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:37:11 +0000

I think it must be admitted that bloggers make mistakes all the time. I do. And I cannot actually say that I’ve never edited any of my posts after hitting the publish button. But I should hope that most of my regular readers do not take everything I say as gospel truth. They know me from the over 1000 posts that exist on my blog.

Anyone who thinks they can gain or keep credibility without the usual commensensical good housekeeping practices of basic honesty and integrity is sadly mistaken.

If I seem to be defending Noemi it is because I am. She did admit what she considers to have been a mistake in judgment.

Are we supposed to take from this one incident some generalization about bloggers. I don’t think so.

Yes of course the show was about bloggers and blogger credibility. But insofar as a comparison was being begged and pushed with journalists, it is only fair to point out that all these peccadillos are just as common, and in more virulent forms in the utterly corrupt MSM.

You can dump on the Mom blogger. I give her kudos, just coz she got up there and faced down a pair of subtle bullies.

By: baycas

baycas — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:17:10 +0000

the focus was on “blogger credibility” rather than “journalist credibility”

yes, that’s how i understood it.

“it was really a mistake,” she said, not to put disclosures on editing…

again…congratulations…

for owning up to her mistake.

now, how about the jumping to conclusions part???

By: DJB

DJB — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:49:59 +0000

ManuelV., Tell me something. Right now who do you think has greater overall credibility, for whatever reason: the blogosphere or the main stream media? Who has more paid hacks? Who is involved in daily, hourly, second by second corruption and sale of bandwidth? Who distorts the news. Who published paid-for opinion the most? Who is in the employ of some big private interest or other.

The MSM’s problem is it must adapt and evolve or perish.

We have all acknowledged that these are different genres of writing, different media even, and therefore different messages.

Credibility in the blogosphere is not purchased with the same currency as in the main stream.

But what is it you are really trying to say? Spit it out already!

By: ManuelV

ManuelV — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:15:14 +0000

DJB, the focus was on “blogger credibility” rather than “journalist credibility”

Here’s the link to video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFj6_Ge17c

It wasn’t about vetting. It was about disclosing edits made to one’s blog post, and how failing to make such a disclosure gave rise to questions on credibility.

I viewed the video and did not catch any part where Noemi Dado said that she “did not care about the credibility that journalists claim only their vetted process can produce.”

By: DJB

DJB — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:25:26 +0000

Momblogitch,
Yes, I heard the part of the conversation when she said that. But the context was “journalist credibility”. She was just saying that as a blogger, she did not care about the credibility that journalists claim only their vetted process can produce.

Regarding momblogging, Noemi was just saying that as a mom she is an expert on her own children, husband and family. So the question of “credibility” had not actually arisen in the same way that it did in the golf fracas.

I think you have to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.

You are of course being perverse by putting foul words in her mouth at the end of your comment.