Weblog Reporting
by Derrick StoryNetwork Newsletter for 01/14/2003
Dear Reader,
I just returned from spending a week working in San Francisco covering the Macworld Expo. If you followed our reports on oreillynet.com and macdevcenter.com, you noticed that weblogs are playing a larger role in helping us report breaking news in a timely manner.
Weblogs, those informal musings posted directly online, have evolved on O'Reilly Network from personal diaries to a legitimate medium for reporting news. Why is this so?
Unlike formal articles that have to work their way through an editorial process, weblogs can be written directly in our online publishing system and posted the minute the "final" button is clicked. When used in conjunction with wireless networking, reporters can literally roam the scene and report nearly instantaneously on what they observe.
This is just one use of this very flexible medium, but I see weblogs becoming an even bigger part of our publishing in the months to come.
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I'm mentioning this today because if you haven't been following these postings, I urge you to take a look. Find the writers and subjects that interest you, and when appropriate, add your comments to the TalkBacks at the end of the post.
Weblogs, and your responses to them, are an important way for us to communicate with each other within the O'Reilly community.
Until next week,
Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Managing Editor
derrick@oreilly.com
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