Too many blogs? Or just too many bad blogs?

By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

We want trained professionals, rather than amateurs, to fix our computers when they break down, and we want trained professionals, rather than amateurs, to educate our children. Why then, has there come to be an attitude that blogging and unedited "citizen journalism" practiced by amateurs is equal or superior to the work done by professional writers and journalists? Blogs have value and serve a purpose, of course. But let's take them for what they are. Blogs are not news. They are not journalism. They do, however, represent an ongoing dialogue in response to news and journalism. And it's good to have a dialogue.

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