[WikiEN-l] blogs vs websites - (was Bauer DRV question - history)

[George Herbert]

On 3/27/07, Guettarda <guettarda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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 at gmail.com