Nornagest comments on Rationality Quotes May 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 21 May 2014 08:35:24PM *  1 point [-]

He might be writing for an SaaS audience, but he's writing about the blog format, which is built to facilitate crowdsourced magazine journalism or editorial-style content. Now, he's quite right that the format's poorly suited to long-form or reference-style content, but starting a post with "let's talk about blogging" and proceeding to talk about all the ways it sucks for those content types, without much more than a word for its intended purpose, strikes me as a pretty serious omission.

If instead he'd framed it as "blogs are often misused", then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But that's not where we're standing.

Comment author: Vaniver 21 May 2014 09:01:24PM 1 point [-]

strikes me as a pretty serious omission.

What makes it serious? What purpose does including journalism in the article serve?