From Butterworthgate to Sylvestergate?

Know More: Web Journalism, Writing Resources 2.0, Writing Resources

As I noted earlier, The Financial Times has entered the blogging fray. Last month, they built this temporary blog to answer questions from readers about a controversial article by Trevor Butterworth. For better or for worse, the site generated an impressive array of angry, self-righteous, knowledgeable, and positive comments from bloggers around the globe.

The prolific web journalist, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, studied the Financial Times website yesterday. In a neat twist, Pang wrote a similarly controversial article that lead to a productive, on-going blog called The Death of Cyberspace--so he had some interesting criticism for the project.

Check it out...

"Perhaps [the Financial Times blog] is a sign of something new and even more short-lived: the blog as exotic particle. It appears after some high-energy collision (the publication of a controversial article, or protests against a controversial piece of legislation, or March Madness), captures lots of interesting interactions for a very short time (say, a few weeks), then decays into nothing, leaving behind just tracks and traces for people to analyze."

Myself, I think these "exotic particles" could help more newspapers and magazines get some lightening fast feedback from readers. For instance, the Village Voice could have created a temporary blog about Nick Sylvester's doctored article to stave off the "Sylvestergate" attack orchestrated by the New York media supersite, Gawker. Instead, the newspaper kept mum about why they kept the disgraced writer on staff, outraging way too many online readers.

(Editor's Note: A previous version of this post caused technical problems and was deleted. I apologize for any bad trackbacks or empty links that caused...)

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