Blogs: Trusted Information Source?

Here are a few clips from a recent article in Reuters about blogging. The results of the survey discussed in the article suggest that bloggers have their work cut out for them to gain reader confidence.

"Despite the popularity of the Internet in more developed countries and the emergence of “web-logging” or blogging, neither fared well in the survey, according to Globescan President Doug Miller. “The Internet is gaining ground among the young,” he said.“The jury is still out on ‘blogs’ — just as many people distrust them as trust them,” he told Reuters. The research found that just 25 percent of respondents said they trusted blogs, while 23 percent said they did not trust them."

"Dean Wright, managing editor of consumer media at Reuters,said he believed blogs would eventually come of age, as newspapers themselves once did. Wright added: “It’s a relatively recent phenomenon that people believe what’s written in a newspaper. One hundred years ago, newspapers were incredibly partisan: they were the blogosphere of their day. “There are already blogs that people trust and quality will win out once people realise which ones they can trust.”

Source: Reuters