Comments on: Why bloggers should adopt standards

By: old buick tanker

old buick tanker — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:13:09 +0000

All the talk about standards and guidelines is bullshit. Credibility is earned by being credible, not by following guidelines. The wide-open internet, it’s up to the reader to determine who has a valid point or not, and standards or guidelines are meaningless anyway. The readers will decide who is credible or not on their own, ethical standards or not.

By: Nolte

Nolte — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 06:34:59 +0000

As in mainstream news sources, credibility is gained not automatically assigned. The National Enquirer is not noted as a source of important and credible information, nor does it try to be a news source. Just like the blog, a site that is personal in source may not gain credibility by merely reporting opinions.

Standarization is important, although a personal blog will not necessarily implement the standards and therefore may or may not gain credibility depending on what is reported, but many will still use the information provided to form opinions.

Standards are less important than guidelines would be. We should try to support guidelines to help establish credibility rather than try to implement standards.

Ethics on the other hand is an entirely different argument. Which I think should be approached with the same understanding as the ethics in normal journalistic rules.

By: Jef Knight

Jef Knight — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:12:22 +0000

Good Day,

I agree that neojournalists should adhere to certain standards as prescribed in you article. The problem is that not all bloggers are wannabe journalists. Some are just personal meanderings. Didn’t your diary used to have a little lock on it?
We should consider another name/catagory for us journalistic types. Maybe we should just call them “Journals” instead of Blogs.