tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18871760.post115056180591891925..comments2023-10-16T07:45:53.146-07:00Comments on Open Culture: The Media, Bloggers, and WikipediaDawn Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056689867580214775noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18871760.post-1150684459509363592006-06-18T19:34:00.000-07:002006-06-18T19:34:00.000-07:00The tech sector might not by the best example to u...The tech sector might not by the best example to use for this. Almost by definition, they're going to be early adopters of new technology and the first to embrace it (sometimes beyond reason). Also, readers of tech blogs and readers of the New York Times technology section are going to be two completely different audiences... much of the latter may not even know what Wikipedia *is*, which factors into how it may get reported. (Further, I'm not sure that Scoble leaving Microsoft is the best example either - to read Memeorandum that day you'd think it was the biggest story in the history of technology... I'm not sure the blogosphere collectively kept a sense of perspective on that one.)<BR/><BR/>If you look outside the tech blogosphere though you'll see the mainstream media still leads. Blogs are very rarely primary sources for news in the politics sphere, for example - while bloggers excel at doing research and fact checking, they rarely break any stories and they rely heavily on the journalism done by reporters.<BR/><BR/>I actually agree with the majority of what you're saying though, I'm just playing devil's advocate and nitpicking a bit. There's little doubt that what you describe is where things are going... but they're not quite there yet. Sometimes when you're on that forefront of new technology, it's easy to forget that most of the world is still lagging somewhat behind you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com