Sunday, April 04, 2004

more on the "controversy" I mentioned yesterday

The blogger who got in trouble for his lack of sympathy for the lynched mercenaries in Iraq runs Daily Kos, a site I visit frequently. There's a full rundown of the fallout of Kos' comments at The Blogging of the President. An excerpt:

When I produced the call-in talk radio radio pilot 'The Blogging of the President', I noticed some interesting similarities between talk radio and blogs. Call-in talk radio is organized around authentic conversation, and so are blogs; Howard Stern and Atrios have similar levels of devotion among their audiences, because they each connect and seem trustworthy. There is however one key difference between blogs and talk radio; blogs create memory, whereas talk radio and cable punditry destroys it by turning opinion and analysis into an ethereal product.

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