Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Summary of the Blogs and Journalism Panel at the Revenge of the Blog conference in New York late last week. John Hiler begins by telling us (as if we didn't know) that blogs are addictive. But it's a good kind of addiction, like being addicted to knowledge instead of, say, amphetamines. But most of the discussion centered around the inevitable swirl of facts and opinion that characterizes the blogsphere. We also saw the inevitable comment that bloggers don't do any original reporting, an assertion contradicted by this (original) conference summary.

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