Chat with Me Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be participating in a real-time chat hosted by the Washington Post. The topic is how companies are tracking trends through blog chatter.

Comments

[scott]

Cool..congrats.

[Fritz]

I'll need to find the time to drop in on the chat. A reporter from the Denver Post left a comment the other day asking for input from bloggers about what topics the paper should be following. I called him up and asked for details; the journalist told me he knows nothing at all about blogging but his boss told him and other reporters to "use blogs," apparently because it's the trend-of-the-day as far as these journalists can tell. I intend to write more about this later for Freshblog, but editors and writers I've spoken with at the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, and the local paper in my town are all pretty clueless about the technology, benefits, and usage of blogging. They apparently still live with the fiction that they have complete control over the flow of information.