Comments on: Blogging: Journalism’s Amateur Hour? http://saunderslog.com/2006/08/01/blogging-journalisms-amateur-hour/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:07:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jason Drohn http://saunderslog.com/2006/08/01/blogging-journalisms-amateur-hour/#comment-28566 Jason Drohn Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:06:10 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2006/08/01/blogging-journalisms-amateur-hour/#comment-28566 Lehmann makes a very good and valid point in the article, as well as a number of authors who have taken this point up. However, one must keep in mind that the web is searchable to people who use it proficiently. I can find anything on here, as I am sure you can Alec; but most people can not. I am a pretty avid domainer, and the way I look at it is that when people type in a keyword into the url bar, they want to find content relating to that keyword. All my parked sites do is redirect them to where they want to go. ~92% of the people in the world are on the web at their job, at home, etc. There are an incredible number of people who underutilize it. A lot of bloggers take things that interest them and repost the content or comment on it, making the information available to a wider, more specific audience. It is much like a ripple in a pond. You throw one rock, the ripples get only so far. You throw a handful of rocks, there are more ripples in different areas causing the impact to be more widespread. Lehmann makes a very good and valid point in the article, as well as a number of authors who have taken this point up. However, one must keep in mind that the web is searchable to people who use it proficiently. I can find anything on here, as I am sure you can Alec; but most people can not. I am a pretty avid domainer, and the way I look at it is that when people type in a keyword into the url bar, they want to find content relating to that keyword. All my parked sites do is redirect them to where they want to go.

~92% of the people in the world are on the web at their job, at home, etc. There are an incredible number of people who underutilize it. A lot of bloggers take things that interest them and repost the content or comment on it, making the information available to a wider, more specific audience. It is much like a ripple in a pond. You throw one rock, the ripples get only so far. You throw a handful of rocks, there are more ripples in different areas causing the impact to be more widespread.

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