Dayton Daily News education reporter Scott Elliott writes about schools, kids, teaching and learning.
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A moment in blog journalism, and DDN was there
Yesterday, I hosted something called the Carnival of Education here at Get on the Bus. “Carnivals” in the blogosphere, are weekly or monthly gatherings of like minded bloggers. There’s now more than 60 carnivals out there for those who blog about history, health, comedy, poetry and lots of other areas. Bloggers offer up their best posts and one member of the group serves as host and editor, building a list of links to everybody’s work.
But what you almost never see on these carnivals are posts from the “mainstream media” (MSM in blogging vernacular). Just take a look at the reaction from this blogger. Traditional media are still trying to figure out this blogging phenomenon. First of all, there aren’t very many blogger journalists who work at mainstream news organizations, and those that are out there haven’t seemed to have discovered these subcultures, even in their specialty areas.
That’s why what happened this week was special. Two MSM blogs, for the first time ever, actually hosted these normally under-the-radar blogging carnivals on mainstream newspaper sites. The first was Mel’s Kitchen, a cooking blog at the Greensboro (N.C.) News-Record, which hosted The Tar Heel Tavern, a weekly carnival of North Carolina-based bloggers. Then four days later, I hosted the Carnival of Education here at DDN.com.
The News-Record has 16 staff written blogs. The DDN has 15. Both of these scrappy, medium-sized papers are ahead of the curve on blogging. This is a growing trend, and the MSM carnival hosting this week, I’d argue, is a fairly significant step toward blog/MSM convergence.
At a minimum, you have to say this — we participated in something that’s never been done before. That’s pretty cool.
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By Nancy Brown
November 5, 2005 10:56 PM | Link to this
I think this is great. Today is my first time, even tho’ I’ve noted in the DDN that you were blogging. Keep it going, Scott!