BBC Editors, blogs and drupal July 23, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : drupal, blogs and community , trackbackAntony Mayfield writes in Blog and viewer influence on BBC news agenda:
The BBC’s The Editors blog continues to be one of the most interesting and useful media blogs around.
And I agree, if you’re at all interested in the process of journalism and publishing, or in current affairs, then you should subscribe for a while, and read the comments too.
He also discusses the strange case of someone being surprised when they discovered that Newsnight editors were reading about them, he sense that people somehow feel that what they write on blogs is somehow, sometimes a private conversation, and not exposed to the all-seeing eyes of Google and Technorati.
I picked up on that perception because I’ve always thought it central to what makes blogging work, this tension or disparity between a perception of intimacy and the fact of being a very public space. But if it is the illusion of privacy which contributes to making blogs useful and readable, then isn’t this a somewhat fragile basis on which to continue? In some cases, yes. Where the illusion is based on an actual ignorance of who may be reading, then a sudden comment or the addition of webstats may cause a blogger to stop dead in their tracks and rethink who they are writing for. But in most cases I think it is an agreed suspension of awareness of the potential audience which allows the blogger to write less selfconsciously than in say a public forum, whilst being able to cope perfectly well with any unepected exposure which may happen.
I’m currently trying to grapple with this for the purposes of exploring best ways to set up drupal as a community platform, with it’s combination of blogs, forums and other structures.
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