http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/02/18/a-quick-note-on-the-differences-between-blogs-and-old-media/ Cook Local, Eat Global Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/02/18/a-quick-note-on-the-differences-between-blogs-and-old-media/#comment-2364 Christopher Gordon Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:20:27 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/02/18/a-quick-note-on-the-differences-between-blogs-and-old-media/#comment-2364 hmm…obviously somewhere in that run-on sentence it should read “take one’s self not-so-seriously.”

]]> http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/02/18/a-quick-note-on-the-differences-between-blogs-and-old-media/#comment-2363 Christopher Gordon Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:18:13 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/02/18/a-quick-note-on-the-differences-between-blogs-and-old-media/#comment-2363 Perhaps you have encountered this as well: there’s often discussion(self-reflexive and lighthearted, tho’ it might be) as per proper attribution when a MSM article -obviously- gleans info from a specific forum. Taking into account the spontaneous generation of interest among internet sources and the need to take one’s not-so-seriously it still “burns” when the wheezing, gasping, curmudgeonly, let’s say print media(the selfsame arbiter of information often denegrating and repudiating the miraculous talking horse from whose oracular utterances it dangles) parses info as supposedly sui generis. Or, even worse, footnotes their lead generically, as in “much discussed on ye olde internet shoppes, cabals, and chatrooms” MSM fie.

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