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A conversation with Doc Searls
A few days ago I was down in Santa Barbara at Doc Searls' place with Dan Gillmor to discuss the local media situation. While there, I did a video interview with Doc about some of the principles of blogging and citizen journalism, including independence and fairness. Doc, naturally, had some wise things to say. And it was the first interview he's given in his cool new house.
Some of the highlights: "Technorati's top 100 just fucked up blogging a
lot. ... Suddenly there's an A list and a power curve and all this
bullshit, and it's irrelevant. ... It reduces to a number something
that's inherently not numerical. It's a wrong thing to do." (Doc makes clear he's a huge fan of Technorati — indeed, he sits on their Advisory Board — and he's friends with Dave Sifry.)
"We don't have a commons [on the Net] yet." We're not always kind to each other online because "we don't have a sense of public place." There are people having "a blog exchange without any evidence of a human exchange."
The 14-minute interview can be found:
• On Ourmedia (media page | watch video)
• On Motionbox (watch video in Flash and jump around)
• On vlogcentral (watch video in WMV or in MPEG4)
February 23, 2007 at 12:37 PM in Interviews | Permalink | Comments (0)
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