Comments on: Global Voices 2005 Summit – any input?

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Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:20:52 +0000

[...] A couple of days ago I posted the meeting agenda at Caribbean Free Radio, soliciting input from my fellows in the Caribbean blogosphere. Tyndale, a journalist with many years’ experience under his belt who has only recently started exploring the idea of blogging, left this thought-provoking list of predictions: Predictions: 1) Journalists will not become great bloggers. They will concentrate on places where they get paid to write/talk. 2) Journalists will however come to see good blogs as additional resources, and will start to pick up and report (maybe even quote) material from them (e.g. the celebrated Baghdad Blogger). 3) Bloggers can become journalists by writing the zillions of stories professional journalists don’t get to, don’t care about, or are told by their editors not to touch. 4) Lively bloggery develops fastest in societies where there is plenty going on but conventional journalism is repressed, self-censoring or slack; and which are not so small that everyone already knows everyone else’s business. 5) One big problem is going to be a surfeit of bloggers and a shortage of bloggees: i.e. more people writing than reading. How to direct international attention to blogs that are consistent, accurate, thoughtful, interesting and useful? And here’s what some of the other Caribbbean bloggers had to say: [...]

By: tyndale

tyndale — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:11:26 +0000

Predictions:
1) Journalists will not become great bloggers. They will concentrate on places where they get paid to write/talk.
2) Journalists will however come to see good blogs as additional resources, and will start to pick up and report (maybe even quote) material from them (e.g. the celebrated Baghdad Blogger).
3) Bloggers can become journalists by writing the zillions of stories professional journalists don’t get to, don’t care about, or are told by their editors not to touch.
4) Lively bloggery develops fastest in societies where there is plenty going on but conventional journalism is repressed, self-censoring or slack; and which are not so small that everyone already knows everyone else’s business.
5) One big problem is going to be a surfeit of bloggers and a shortage of bloggees: i.e. more people writing than reading. How to direct international attention to blogs that are consistent, accurate, thoughtful, interesting and useful?

By: sungoddess

sungoddess — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:30:28 +0000

If I EVER get any money again…and in time, I would love to come to this. Might be interesting…

By: Georgia

Georgia — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:00:22 +0000

I’m down as one of the people to give “input” on the “Best of Both Worlds” panel, but the format is supposed to be very open and informal.

By: sungoddess

sungoddess — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:39:26 +0000

Sounds like an interesting conference…. are you speaking on any panels?