Sunday, February 10, 2008

The mute reader

Julie makes some very good points regarding the bloglist on washingtonpost.com and how their list of titles doesn't really serve the reader in managing their time and finding blogs of interest to them. This issue is a very real one for journalism today and speaks to what media scholar Axel Bruns calls a "gatewatching" function that journalism will increasingly play--kind of a cross between what journalists traditionally do as gatekeepers and what librarians do in guiding users to the information they want.

It's also interesting to note that Julie did not enable her blog readers to respond to her blog with comments--even print journalism allows letters to the editor, Julie!

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