as I'm fond of saying
Submitted by LynnS on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 3:10pm.

If one puts great credence into anonymous posts on a blog, the credibility problem is between one's ears; one is overly credulous. Are there going to be people who do? Sure, and there are people who thought the Weekly World News was true long before "blog" was a word.

Blogs themselves, by and large--not the comments on them--are not anonymous. I'm known, for instance. Markos Moulitsas is known. Dooce is known. Jeff Gannon is known, for cryin' out loud. Just as with any other news source, people read over time and figure out whether they trust the source and/or agree with it.

Keep in mind that I do not advocate the "death" of the newspaper--good grief, I love newspapers. I advocate the evolution of newspapers. The medium itself is not the product. Your product isn't the paper, the magazine, the 5 o'clock news. Information is. Get it out there, as many different ways as you can.

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

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