Monday, October 09, 2006 10:56 PM
The editor of the
TechCrunch weblog, Michael Arrington, wrote an interesting post this morning at
CrunchNotes about spending the weekend in Washington D.C. at the Online News Association Conference. Specifically, he relates his experience as an invited panelist at the Conference.
I wanted to go because the organizers said I"d be welcome, and that the people who attend (traditional journalists) really were trying to understand this whole blogging phenomenon.
So I went. And what a mistake it was. I thought this was going to be an attempt to bridge the gap between blogging and big media. All I saw was a fear and an unassailable resistance to change.
I wasn"t there, so can only take Arrington"s writing at face value, but his posting suggests, in response to a number of provocative comments he made regarding mainstream media, he was angrily attacked by everyone from print reporters to other bloggers. No doubt this reported ugliness is a sign of the times as people and industry try and figure out where weblogs fit in the future for media.
It is worth a read. You can find it here