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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 31-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Internet connection provided by BendBroadBand. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 5529 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 18147 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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Bloggers are 'net Version of Sad Guys with Police RadiosThis guy's going to get some flack over this (get user/pass here): Do bloggers have the credentials of real journalists? No. Bloggers are hobby hacks, the Internet version of the sad loners who used to listen to police radios in their bachelor apartments and think they were involved in the world. ...Most bloggers are not fit to carry a reporter's notebook.Generally, I agree with him, but there are many great bloggers out there that are probably better reporters than he is (and many good reporters who are also bloggers). Link via Romensko. Posted by Jake on 09/29/04 @ 02:16 PM
Posted in Interesting | 1 Comment | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 2 TrackbacksBloggers v. Journalists from Bring Back the 80's! on 09/30/04 @ 02:47 AM:Barney emailed me a link to an article about a columnist who was bad mouthing the blogging community. I replied to Barney with what I thought, and he said "You should blog that". I didn't feel like it at the... (Read More) "The war against the media" from JohnHays.net on 09/30/04 @ 09:15 PM: UtterlyBoring and Bring Back the 80's! both have posts about an article by professional journalist Nick Coleman entitled Blogged down in Web fantasy. The following are a few sentences in the article. It is about the war against the media. A lot ... (Read More) 1 CommentDave M. said on 09/29/04 @ 02:43 PM:I would say that bloggers are more like CB radio people compared to HAM operators. Back in the day, CB was full of people talking about anything at all. They were just the people who either couldn't pass the stupid test to get a HAM lisense (know morse code for starters) or just didn't want to bother. Bloggers are pretty much the same. There are millions of people out there just barfing out any old drivel they want. Then there are the serious bloggers like The Daily KOS that are actually run by journalists. Post a comment |
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