Predigesting the news
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What is the role of the professional blogger? To predigest the news. To put it all in one place. To amass the opinions.
So, what does this all mean? That we, as professional bloggers, have a role greater than just syndicating material - greater than just taking others’ work and linking to it with a sentence or two. We should contextualize the information, link to it, and find other relevant information to link to.
Doesn’t all that linking kind of eliminate the whole predigested thing? I don’t think so. I think we have a reseponsibility to review the information within the post, but offer ways for others who are interested to read more.
Inspired by a post on Recruiting.com
June 15th, 2005 at 3:09 pm
“We should contextualize the information, link to it, and find other relevant information to link to.”
If you’re not doing that, why would people read your blog in the first place? There’s the issue of exposure, but even that’s more a problem of relevance to a certain subject: most good blogs have a defined set of covered topics.
June 15th, 2005 at 3:15 pm
Of course, but I think we have a greater responsibility as bloggers to pay due diligence to topics. Not just to report what one person has says, but to add something more to it. I think we should attempt to become authorities in any area we write on, and that requires much more.
Not quite sure what the last part of your commentary means?