Douglas Stewart
2008-09-22 17:36:34
Perhaps your conclusions have a self selection bias in them, and things are not nearly as bad for the blogoshpere as the conference suggests. During this very heated and controversial political season, I doubt many of the better political bloggers have the time to go to a conference on blogging. Larger groups like pajamas can spare someone to cover the event, but smaller operations like stratasphere probably cannot. My guess is that you had an over-representation of the non-political bloggers and people interested in becomming bloggers and press types who also blog. I for one rely heavily on a “trusted” group of bloggers to parse and analyze the mainstream news for the real substance.
