January 12, 2005

David Weinberger makes some good points about the wee wordstorm touched off by announcing a conference at the Harvard Law School’s Shorenstein Centre on “Blogging, Journalism and Credibility “.

My emphasis added …

 

There’s a, shall we say, lively discussion going on over at the blog for the Berkman conference on blogs, journalism and credibility . It’s an invitation-only conference and that’s stirred a lot of questions about whether appropriately representative sets of people have been invited. Are there enough bloggers? Are they the right sort of bloggers? Some are saying that not enough big-readership bloggers are there; others say not enough “struggling” bloggers are there. I suspect there is an age skew, with an under-representation of the people under 30 who collectively are doing something remarkable with blogs to which the question of credibility makes as much sense as the question of punctuality.

But a conference is allowed to frame the question it’s interested in, and this one is about the interesting intersection of blogging and journalism, not about everything that can and should ever be said out loud about blogging.

I’m checking out an idea I had about how blogging can be made easier using Qumana .

 

If it works, it will be another step in understanding that it’s probably a blogger’s semi-conscious work habits (whether they’re sued to starting a post by going into a blog application’s dashboard, or whether they’re just getting use to a blog client, or other ways) that is the greatest single impediment to making blogging even easier.

 

One of Qumana’s core goals is to create more time for thinking by reducing the time required in tinkering  … with the particular features of any given blog application.

 

So if this post succeeds, I will have: