An interesting e-mail arrived today–an invitation to a blogger conference\/get-together in Raleigh, hosted by the local NBC station there.<\/p>\n
I’ll admit, it’s intriguing. I’ve never thought of myself as someone who got noticed in the blogosphere. The NBC station wants to have a sit-down with bloggers to talk about the role blogs can play in breaking news stories and following stories that the mainstream media might have missed or moved beyond. I think that as more news outlets move toward having blogs as part of their online presence and blogs move toward more reporting and less editorializing we’ll eventually see a kind of convergence between the top-down model of information flow that defines the media and the bottoms-up information flow of the bloggers. Eventually these two wave fronts will converge, and perhaps even harmonize. Simply in terms of information theory I find that intriguing.<\/p>\n
There’s, of course, a major hitch–I no longer live near Raleigh, so it doesn’t make sense for me to go to Raleigh for a one day conference, especially if it might be focused on issues that matter to the Raleigh-Durham area, issues that I still have a passing interest in but not an overwhelming interest in, and certainly not issues I would feel particularly moved to write about.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, it’s nice to be noticed and invited to a blogger conference. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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