The issue is self-published sources. It's really the same if you blog or it you use a vanity press. It's the preponderance of blogs that causes them to be singled out. It's a readily available medium, and anyone can register a blog and spout off on whatever topic they want. The main issue is "be careful with self-published material"...whether it is a blog, a non-blog webpage, or a book published by a vanity press.

On 3/27/07, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com> wrote: or it them to a Being careful with it is a fine admonision, but a lot of people take it too far. A lot of writers and pundits both blog and do columns and so forth. If they do a print publication column, what's the difference between that and a blog? One level of editing, maybe, but not much. The prior people in thread noting that it's hard to tell the difference between a serious ongoing business and vanity publishing site. Even without getting your own server and learning FrontPage (or HTML / CSS / etc for the hardcore), there are plenty of options for putting info out there that look independent and professional but aren't. And there are a lot of amateurish looking professional sources. Not everyone spends time making their website pretty as opposed to doing stuff. -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l