Rebecca's pocket is full of...

After reading the blog from Rebecca’s pocket I couldn’t help but think that the entire premise of her article was off. I think if people want to be taken seriously as journalists, posting a weblog is not the appropriate way to go about it. For me, blogging is and should be based on personal knowledge and opinions. I find it hard to believe that people who want to be serious journalists are using a blog to showcase this work. Granted, sources like Wikipedia are useful and meaningful, but I doubt that people are using that type of site to get noticed as an expert on the subject they were writing about. If you want to be considered an expert in a field, publish something in hard print and then put it on the internet, not the other way around. I agree that people should be ethical in any public arena, and especially in the sense of respecting other people by not slandering them. In terms of the plethora of information on the Internet, although Rebecca’s suggestions are useful and are good guidelines, it is ultimately on the user’s shoulders to prove the worth of the sites they use for research.