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Alex Rawls — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:07:02 +0000

One concern after this mornings culture panel at the Rising Tide 4 bloggers conference: How many bloggers will treat what they heard as gospel, and how many will do additional research or confirm some of the assertions? Much of it was right in broad strokes but quite as it was reported from the stage.

Whether people caught it or not, keynote speaker Harry Shearer called for bloggers to be the journalists that the mainstream media cant or wont be. His call for bloggers to invest their time was a call not for slow writing or patience, but for dedicated, well-researched blogging.

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Alex Rawls — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:29:58 +0000

At the Rising Tide 4 bloogers conference, the day started with a discussion of culture. It raised an interesting tension as a social aid and pleasure club rep called for governmental assistance to bring parade culture back and help it flourish. The irony in that is that SAPCs were borne out of the realization that the community was on its own. Obviously, wed like it to be easier for SAPCs and Mardi Gras Indians to hit the streets, but the turn from a self-sufficient culture to a relief culture is worrying.

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