…The media folks (generalizing) still think that the important effect that blogging is having on them ? and they do believe it’s having an effect ? comes from bloggers who are sorta kinda journalists. But that’s a tiny percentage of the blogosphere. The truly disruptive effect of bloggers comes from the rest of the blogosphere that doesn’t think of itself as journalistic at all. We’re not the farm team for Big Media. We’re a different ballpark entirely.

In fact, we’re not a ballpark at all, of course. The other big gap between us is easy to state but hard to explain: The media is owned. The blogosphere isn’t. We together are building it. The media have to try to get us interested in what they do, but the blogosphere is constructed out of our interests. It’s ours not (just) in the sense of ownership but in the sense of what we care about and what we are.

David Weinberger: 1/22/05

Well said. It made me think of Shelley’s declaration: “I will never issue a disclaimer at this site. Again.”

Ed Cone is looking into blogs about faith or post about it regularly.

Here goes some that come immediately to mind:

Martin Roth’s blogs4God

Heal Your Church Web Site

slacktivist

Official conference blog, webcast, Jeff Jarvis and David Weinberger are blogging it as it happens.

I think too much focus has been on the nebulous word: “Credibility”. The whole idea of getting journalists to embrace blogging and current blogger pundits to recognize journalistic ethics (journalists are not the enemy!) is the real conversation. “Credibility” – well that should be a by-product. What happens when the mass media starts to really dig in and pay many journalists to blog? Everything I’ve read about The News & Record tells me they have the right idea. If you work at a paper, read this now.

That’s what Cringely says and that’s what I’ve been saying at work. I want one. Bad. Richelle has an iBook. I’ve been jealous for far too long 🙂

A great collection to be found here.

Dan says that its time to wave goodbye to the the idea of journalistic objectivity and move on to embrace new (old) principals that are required in this day and age: thoroughness, accuracy, fairness, and transparency. Couldn’t agree more. I’d love to see pundit bloggers agree on these principals. Boy would I.

Meanwhile Jay Rosen says the whole blogger vs. journalist argument is over. I’ve never really subscribed to the idea that it existed since I’ve always looked at blogging a toolset.

Ed Cone shares the smartest thing I’ve read in a while on the subject (I say that because it agrees with what I just said!): “Blogging is a tool, Journalism is an occupation, and Credibility is a goal” from The Head Lemur.

For pundits/journalists/domain experts – credibility is the goal. For the rest of the world – Shelley’s right – it’s about fun, communication, expression and sharing.