"Read My Pixels"

Says David Weinberger -- "I am not a journalist." A veteran blogger and Berkman Fellow, Weinberger recently responded to a provocative article in CNet about the credentialing of bloggers for the DNC convention. Journalist Charles Cooper criticized the blog postings about the convention as ranging from "the insufferably pedantic to the sublimely mediocre." He claims that bloggers missed their chance to make history at the DNC. Weinberger's response: "To judge us through the lens of the media... is just not right." Weinberger argues in a video posting that blogs have a different readership and set of norms from traditional media, so naturally bloggers' commentary on the DNC had a different focus. Read more about blogging the convention.