On 10/22/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com
Keith Old wrote:
The world is changing. Blogs are becoming more widely read while the mainstream media is losing its audience although obviously it is still
more
popular and will remain so.
My point remains. There are some credible bloggers and not so credible bloggers. We should be careful in the credibility and reliability of all
the
sources and be aware of ensuring that our references are reliable and provide a balanced view of the topic. We owe that to our readers.
According to NPOV, all we need to do is make up some kind of reference template for blogs, which says "this is a blog and in no way are we responsible for it's content" - which lets the readers decide for themselves.
No, instead we need to cite only credible sources, a category into which blogs almost never fall.
If part of the article is the social impact of the topic, including blogs as cited references is sometimes completely valid regardless of whether we know they're reliable or not. In this case, Alphax is correct, but in most others, you are. I don't think we need a special template for when we do cite blogs, but I would always label them clearly for what they are.
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused