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January 23, 2006
The Washington Post on Net Neutrality and "Obscure Blogs":
Yesterday's Washington Post had a story on Net Neutrality written by Christopher Stern which had my attention until he wrote "...But lately the issue, a matter of heated debate on obscure blogs and among analysts like me, has begun to attract the attention of the mainstream press.."
It seems that Christopher struck a similar nerve with Om Malik.
Until now, it is Christopher Stern who has been the "Obscure Analyst" who decided to share his thoughts on the battle of Net Neutrality.
The debate on Net Neutrality will continue in the Blogosphere, with (or without) the help of the mainstream press.
Tags: Net Neutrality, Christopher Stern, Om Malik, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on January 23, 2006 06:53 AM | Permalink
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Aw, chill out, Jeff.
Point is, the Post's readership is far wider and more varied than those of all the telcomm pundits put together.
I agree with him that most people are not aware of this, and I think it's a good thing that a far more general audience will now be informed.
The obscurity to which he refers is that of the entire community of people who consider this a major issue, and it is relative to the much wider audience of general news publications. In your position, I would be more inclined to remember that than to take umbrage at his supposed cluelessness.
Posted by: Brian Thomas at January 23, 2006 03:45 PM
Jeff, lines like that are added to stories to make people who bought a newspaper feel good about having bought the newspaper.
If you look carefully you will see that almost all of the articles in any business section are credited to Bloomberg, Reuters or "and wire
services" meaning that the reporter combined two stories from different wire services and can then claim the story as his own.
At the time the "second gulf war" started, the mainstream press shifted from being newspapers with their slanted stories, yesterday's news and
press releases masquerading as technical articles to the then new weblogs.
Computer and Internet topics were the last to migrate to weblogs because people were already used to online discussions, mailing lists and
magazines that had breaking news and expert opinion on their often updated web sites.
I try never to write ad homonyms but here I feel I must make an exception. Ignore him, it's just a dying gasp from someone who is trying to convince his editors that people actually read him.
Geoff.
Posted by: Geoff Mendelson at January 23, 2006 07:51 AM