Seat at the Table

Wired wrote a piece called Wired’s Best Blogfights of 2006 that led to a few professional bloggers like Steve Rubel to issue a call for bloggers to grow up.  It is probably too broad a call. 

What is more important is to formally recognize that, like Websites in the early days of the Web, there should be a more formal split between professional media bloggers and consumer bloggers (Web sites tend to fall into the professional formal flavors and consumer informal sites).  

In the amateur, informal, consumer versions of the blogosphere, there will be plenty of room for name calling, figurative spitting and all around high school, grade school and pre-school behaviour. 

Professional blogs will likely the higher, more professional standard just as a New York Times has a higher standard that a high school student’s web site.  I don’t know who will set these standards but I’m also not sure it matters.  Like other popular content on the Web, we will know it when we see it.