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Speaking of The Register, Andrew Orlowski has just posted a huge blast against bloggers using this tragedy as an excuse to promote weblogs as being better at covering the news then traditional mediums.

From the article - “For the technology evangelists, the glee is barely containable. The daily business of congratulating each other jumps to a whole new level with all the bloggers marvelling in unison at their ability to detail real-time tragedy.”

Although I’m sure some bloggers have made inappropriate comments about the bombings being a boon for weblogs (either intentionally or not), it comes down to the fact that people of the blogosphere are trying to provide a service. There are definitely a lot of cases when bloggers can get the word out quicker and provide better coverage. But do they do this for the publicity? The chance to further promote this new age of blogging? No! They do it to try and provide as much coverage as possible.

Blogging is not trying to replace other media outlets, but to complement them. What is so bad about that? The blogosphere is not trying to be “ambulance chasers”, but only trying to help people find information on tragedies.

Mr. Orlowski needs to take a step back and actually read what some blogs are trying to do with this. Self promotion? Hardly… Trying to give as much information as possible in as many ways as possible - what is so bad about that?

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