Comments on: Bloggers are Filters (but not gatekeepers)

By: How Was Your Read And Comment Day? « Unique-Frequency

How Was Your Read And Comment Day? « Unique-Frequency — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:17:53 +0000

[...] Frederic talks about how bloggers are filters but not gatekeepers [...]

By: Daryl Tay

Daryl Tay — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:06:49 +0000

I see the term “gatekeepers” in a different way. Certainly you’re correct in that we will not be encouraging or preventing information and/or news flow the same way the journalists or anchors do, but “gatekeepers” also suggests an influence. To get to the people behind the “gate”, you need to activate the gatekeepers. And I think that’s where bloggers come in. While perhaps right now the traditional gatekeepers still are the biggest influences, aggregate all the long tail bloggers and well, there just might be something there, especially within certain niches.

By: Be A Great Human Information Filter | SheGeeks

Be A Great Human Information Filter | SheGeeks — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:49:59 +0000

[...] own way. While he uses the term "gatekeepers", Frederic of The Last Podcast prefers "filters (but not gatekeepers)". Why the change in terms? Frederic notes: However, our readers can get their information from [...]