On blogging, history and changes

Posted by scoop on September 18th, 2006 in Business Blogging, Promotion, Tips, Writing, Writing Content |

Here is a quote from David Ben Gurion:

Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

You, the blogger, are writing your memoirs and the history of whatever trend it is you are following, as well as the spirit of the times. Sometimes as you make these comments on the different events around you, maybe something like the political situation in your country or maybe news about particular celebrities, there are changes that happen whether you are immediately aware of them or not.

Take for example news of a person’s death. What if you heard that a journalist or a businessman who is influential has already died because of a car crash or something similar? Sometimes you are also stricken with this deep emotional turmoil and you want to write about it. If ever you do, and you find out later on that the information you got was all wrong, what would you do?

There are discussions going on Amy Gahran‘s and Dave Taylor‘s blogs. They are asking questions to us fellow bloggers about this issue. Some of us might have really high ranking sites and so much love from Google that when people search for certain information they get to our older blog entries. Somehow, the thought of it makes me want to look back and review my older blog entries and make certain corrections.

In a way, this seems to imply that even bloggers would sometimes seem like journalists in our little ways. We may not always be blogging ‘news’ or newsworthy material per se but the mere thought that we could be potential information sources somehow imply that we are responsible for the information others gather from our respective blogs. I guess what I would like to point out is that we have to be accountable to the ones who read us. The difficulty lies in how we would actually do this.

In your case, what would you do?

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