What's a blog?

Jeffrey Fisher jfisher at igc.org
Fri Jun 7 07:19:50 PDT 2002


why anyone needs john batelle to "learn about" blogging is entirely beyond me. and what does "legit" mean with blogs, anyway?

On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 09:11 AM, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


> <snip>


> Next fall, a handful of students at the University of
> California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism
> will convene weekly to learn about blogging from John
> Batelle, a co-founder of Wired magazine, and Paul
> Grabowicz, the school's new media program director.
>
> Students will create a weblog devoted to copyright
> issues, from "deep-linking" to online music trading.
> They'll also debate whether blogs are "a sensible
> medium for doing journalism, and what does that mean?"
> said Grabowicz, who contributes to the Poynter
> Institute's online media blog.
>

which, btw, is a pretty good blog. :-)

j



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