Comments on: Umair: It’s user-generated “context”

By: mathewi

mathewi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:25:32 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Kareem — I hope that we are getting beyond that kind of viewpoint, but it seems like it's taking an awfully long time.

By: kareem

kareem — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:36:31 +0000

when i worked at espn from 02-04 we looked at blogs as a layer of content that would add colour and texture to the discussion kicked off by the primary source (often us, but also nytimes, wapo — basically bigger media).

and by “we” i mean the geeks – the journos & editors were terrified of pointing people off-site b/c they looked at customer-created information as a substitute, not a compliment.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:25:32 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Kareem — I hope that we are getting beyond that kind of viewpoint, but it seems like it's taking an awfully long time.

By: kareem

kareem — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:36:31 +0000

and by “we” i mean the geeks – the journos & editors were terrified of pointing people off-site b/c they looked at customer-created information as a substitute, not a compliment.

By: mathewi

mathewi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:17:09 +0000

I agree, Tish — sounds simple when you put it that way :-)