The great thing about weblogs, as Jeff Jarvis correctly explained to me in an email today, is that we get to have friendly debate all in the public view. In the spirit of this, I highlight two different perspectives on my planned experiment next week.
SUNY Buffalo professor/"blogologist" Alex Halavais offers one point of view. "I suspect, that if Rubel reads the right blogs, he will find himself far better informed then the average American over his week-long diet," Halavais wrote.
Jeff Jarvis takes another view and even labeled this as a stunt. "I think the apparent hypothesis behind the 'experiment' is flawed because you're assuming that bloggers even try -- even as a whole -- to give you a full news report. They don't," Jarvis wrote.
For the record, this is not a stunt. It's simply an experiment (if for my amusement only) to see if I can know what I need to know by reading blogs only. Nothing more, nothing less.
