NYTimes.com weighs using Weblogs

The BloggerCon Weblog conference at Harvard this past weekend included an interesting discussion on Weblogs and journalism, including moderator Scott Rosenberg, the managing editor of Salon.com; James Taranto, who does a daily bloggish column for the WSJ's Opinion Journal; and NYTimes.com editor-in-chief Len Apcar. NYU's Jay Rosen offers a nice summary of the discussion, in which Apcar said he is hoping to launch new Weblogs on the Times' site as part of the organization's coverage of the presidential campaign.

In an interesting audio interview with blogger Chris Lydon (MP3), Apcar said it could be "some kind of running journal that looks at the feel, the texture, the personalities, the tensions and some of the drama of the campaign, the smells and bells of a particular story. In the right hands it could be compelling reading."

Apcar said he wants to explore other ways to use Weblogs in part because of the success of "Kristoff Responds," a Webloggish forum in which Nicholas D. Kristof, Op-Ed columnist for The Times, answers reader e-mail and gives "the story behind the column."

Meanwhile, here's an interesting online discussion on the BloggerCon Web site about what you would do if you were "blogger-in-chief" for The New York Times.

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