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June 1st, 2009 at 7:43 am
LOL
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June 1st, 2009 at 7:58 am
Awe yeah. Exit133 has bEEN SERVED! You rule sir
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June 1st, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Does that mean I will no longer be able to experience DB’s 2000 words/day hipster wisdom and commentary? Say it ain’t so.
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Chris K. Reply:
June 7th, 2009 at 9:22 am
@Fab1, Ouch. However, I understand the sentiment.
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June 7th, 2009 at 10:40 am
My comment (as well as username), meant partly tongue in-cheek, CK. I can’t expect every content of every blog to be geared to my reading preference and narrow sliver in the demographic. I guess.
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June 8th, 2009 at 1:51 am
This was odd. Talking about unlikely blog demographic, and losing some readership while pleasing others and sponsors, I was sitting on a Tacoma park bench yesterday, and a 70-year old grandmother watching her grandchild out of the blue shifted fron children-talk to Tacoma blog talk. Although she says she still directs people to Exit 133, she volunteered that she thinks Exit 133 had gotten really boring, and doesn’t read it much anymore. She said if I knew Derek to plese tell him so. Then this evening I ran into a person involved in local arts and festivals and after a mutual friend mentioned 133, he said, aw, no one reads Exit 133 any more. Freaky that both of these happened within 12 hours of each other. Personally, there are so many blogs out there now that I don’t have much time to register for the ones that require resistration, much less actually post comments. Except this and a couple others before I cut myself off.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 12:39 am
@Fab1, There’s a lot of ground to cover media-wise in Tacoma and because organizations like the TNT cannot support itself and large-scale, detailed reported at the same time it is up to a plethora of citizen reporters to populate the intertubes with Ripeness. Certainly, that’s overwhelming, which is why aggregation like FeedTacoma create a vital balance local media needs.
I definitely feel what you’re saying about online community splintering, though. Again, I think looking to aggregators as forums for discussion is a good route, but perhaps the technology to weave all the content together has not been developed yet. Look up Google Wave, though. I think that’s a step in the right direction.
Well, I’ve successfully gone on a tangent. Regardless, I do hope local media steps up to the plate that beckons it and furthermore that citizens find way to support it.
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June 13th, 2009 at 12:37 am
As the splintering of the media progresses, it will become more and more difficult to know whether or not what you are reading is true. With so many wanna-be reporters running around, our “news” grows cloudy, slanted, biased… Mass media must find a way to stick around, otherwise micro media will continue to flood the web with opinion and inaccuracy (often intentional). Real reporters are disappearing every day, and they will be missed.
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Electric Elliot Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 8:48 am
@Mudnart, I’m just curious. Would you define a “real” reporter?
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Mudnart Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@Electric Elliot, real reporters are accountable to accuracy. Real reporters face consequences for reporting inaccuracies. Non-real reporters (like me) write whatever we want and people read it. Shoot, you and me, we could probably convince half the internet scene in town that the Volcano shut down if we put our minds to it.
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