On 11/28/06, Tony Jacobs gtjacobs@hotmail.com wrote:
Of those that were independent, they fell into three classes: some made only a passing mention of GNAA, some were articles where GNAA was only mentioned in the message board responses at the bottom, and those that were actually *about* GNAA were blogs (there were one or two of those). We use plenty of internet sources (not the least of which is IMDb, and I've seen plenty of citations to online mags like Salon and Slate), but blogs have been deemed below the threshhold.
Which is ridiculous, because blogs are a medium, not a particular source. Banning all blogs as sources is absurd. A much better policy, one which respects the reader rather than treating him like a child, is to source the articles properly. If the source is a blog, the reader can supply his judgment in how much credence to give the source. Similarly with say, the New York Times, CNN, or the Washington Times, or Pravda.