tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post6311650963206962675..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Why Is Hackdom Dangerous?Susan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-52859825129509729362008-10-30T16:05:00.000-05:002008-10-30T16:05:00.000-05:00Great analogy. Cheap, low quality and impervious ...Great analogy. Cheap, low quality and impervious to exploitation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43862323714808947692008-10-30T14:18:00.000-05:002008-10-30T14:18:00.000-05:00Heh, she's the Wal-Mart of blogging.Heh, she's the Wal-Mart of blogging.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-11367795140574421772008-10-30T14:15:00.000-05:002008-10-30T14:15:00.000-05:00Since blogs have become more mainstream, I've read...Since blogs have become more mainstream, I've read a lot of articles by journalists lamenting the fact that the quality of their profession was going to be adversely affected because of it. I used to dismiss it as hogwash, since there are plenty of good blogs and the ones that suck are easy enough to ignore. Now, I think they might have been right. Lots of papers are heavily laying off staff from their newsrooms because of advertising cutbacks and the like. A lot of these bloggers that are being picked up by the pros are probably being bought at a low price that couldn't sensibly be offered to a trained and/or seasoned journalist with experience. Hence, you get the McArdles and her ilk, who are under-trained and over-confident in their abilities, but are otherwise inexplicably paid for this sort of nonsense writing.<BR/><BR/>Gee, Megan. People who have more free time and money to exercise and eat better don't weigh as much as those who don't. Cracking observation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com