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Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Hiya Instapundit readers, Palestinian coverage below. The most interesting stuff is the Videos, courtesy of the Indymedia folks, and analysis of the Administration's lackluster approach to the possibility of massive campus violence.
Anyway, last time I talked about Calstuff, it was just me and maybe a few other campus blogs out there. But since then, Berkeley has created an entirely new phenomenom: a circle of well-connected, news-breaking, good-writing all concentrating on the affairs of this campus. You can see the links on the left side under 'Cal Blogs.' And while a lot of what we do is commentary on other news sources, I think the Cal Bloggers have actually created something much more important: the first entirely original form of news in a long, long time. Nobody else is doing what we do. It's like a spontaneous, instant newspaper. Between us, we've broken the Cal Patriot story, given the best and most intensive coverage of the Palestinian protest in any news outlet, uncovered scandals in the ASUC, been first with political manueverings in the City Council and ASUC, and there's much much more. Glenn Reynolds writes An organization that put together a network of freelance journalists under a framework that allowed for that sort of reputation-rating, and that paid based on the number of pageviews and the ratings that each story received, would be more like a traditional newspaper than like a weblog, but it would still be a major change from the newspapers of today. Interestingly, it might well be possible to knit together a network of webloggers into the beginnings of such an organization. With greater reach and lower costs than a traditional newspaper, it might bring something new and competitive to the news business. Way ahead of you, big guy. That reputation-rating, profit-making stuff is still on the way, but the gestation of a network of webloggers has already happened here. Of course, it's far easier to build something like this in the self-contained, small world of a college campus, but what has sprung up spontaenously here can be put together elsewhere. And I'm confident more will join the fray at Cal and elsewhere.Email This Post! |
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