I'm not going to rant about blogging and journalism...yet.

By
Andrew
on August 5, 2008 10:54 PM | | Comments (3457) | TrackBacks (0)
But I will give a shout-out to Mark 'rizzn' Hopkins (of Mashable fame). He and I exchanged some words the other day over whether or not one of his posts was appropriate for a "serious" tech blog.

We may agree to disagree on some things. I won't go into the substance.

But some things I said and the context they were said with other people's comments made him rather angry. He posted a video rant about it. That's ok, I can take it. But I exchanged some emails with him last night and it appeared we had been talking past each other.

And today he posted an update, an apology of sorts. He didn't have to do that.

But he did. That's more than many bloggers will do, and even many newspapers - publish a correction or clarification with same prominence of the original material. It's a weakness of many media outlets. One of my favorite practices of some bloggers is to strike out things in place
and put corrected language in.

What Mark did was real, and public, and honest. And as much as I respected him before, that respect has been multiplied. He says he's going to be writing on blogging versus journalism and the state of media today, and I can't wait to find out what he has to say.


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