The BloNGville Gaffe
As the Yaradua Story unfolds, the illness, 'evacuation' as one Nigeria news agency put it, the death and the subsequent resurrection. A few issues come to mind;
1. Blogs have become quite powerful sources for real time information.
2. Information from bloggers should be held with a pinch of salt. I lost quite a bit of respect for some respectable bloggers.
3. The bandwagon effect in BloNGville is very strong.
4. Nigerian news agencies can no longer play the role of information hoarders, otherwise the armchair journalists aka bloggers will take over.
5. It is amazing that the Governor of Katsina state who has been ill for a couple of years could not use his position to put a functional hospital in the whole state. This is why I say there is no true 'rich man' Nigeria. Being rich in Nigeria means having more of what you had when you were poor. Kapish.
6. The BloNGville economy was devalued in the last 48 hours, since information is the currency, each time the whole ville chases after false gossip, there is a loss of credibility.
Housekeeping...
I can now add all my naija blogs to my blog roll since I have managed to make my blog-roll neat and collapsible, so bring it on. Any body looking to jump on that wagon email me, or comment.
1. Blogs have become quite powerful sources for real time information.
2. Information from bloggers should be held with a pinch of salt. I lost quite a bit of respect for some respectable bloggers.
3. The bandwagon effect in BloNGville is very strong.
4. Nigerian news agencies can no longer play the role of information hoarders, otherwise the armchair journalists aka bloggers will take over.
5. It is amazing that the Governor of Katsina state who has been ill for a couple of years could not use his position to put a functional hospital in the whole state. This is why I say there is no true 'rich man' Nigeria. Being rich in Nigeria means having more of what you had when you were poor. Kapish.
6. The BloNGville economy was devalued in the last 48 hours, since information is the currency, each time the whole ville chases after false gossip, there is a loss of credibility.
Housekeeping...
I can now add all my naija blogs to my blog roll since I have managed to make my blog-roll neat and collapsible, so bring it on. Any body looking to jump on that wagon email me, or comment.
For those whose views are docemented online, . Title: Law Students Say Message Board Postings Are Costing Them Job Offers. I googled my own names, (I have a unique set of names, one in 6 billion actually), I was shocked as my blog was returned in the results. This was funny because I had never used my name on my blog. Also it appear namesdir.com crawls emails. The thingie returned my name and my surname as the only entry. urgh. I then googled every name in duduland, but alas none of their names were in the database. Now I feel violated.
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I don't know about loosing respect respect for the bloggers, they were only passing on what they heard.
Please I'll like to learn how to make my blog-roll collapsible (Just in case I need to do that in the future).
Sorry I have double respect in my previous comment....lol
I have a question if you don't mind answering..
Did you take your blog off the naija aggregator? Because I don't see feeds from your blog there anymore.
Oh know I did not, maybe that happened when I changed to a private domain, but it works quite fine in other agregators though. Let me see if I can 're-submit' it at the Naija aggregator thingie. The instruction for the collapsible thingie is here. http://bloggeruniversity.blogspot.com/2006/11/blogger-beta-hideshow-expandcollapse.html
Well, where there is smoke, there is fire. Let us wait a couple more hours and see what happens with this story.
nice blog you have here. phew leeme go make sure i am not searchable. i dont remember registering my blog with my real name. I dont want to feel violated.
Omodudu, is your nickname OZ by Chance? StonY?
Well, what goes around comes around...
It's high time we develop ethics for responsible blogging though. Before the lawyers start feeding on us!
Hey, blogs have become a source of real time info, and just like Newspapers, they can get it wrong. And just like newspapers, they will print a 'retraction' or whatever. It's all part of the game. If you read the blogs coming out of Iraq, talk about a rumour a minute !!
When you're reading real time info, there's always a tendency that the information will be wrong. I remember the blogosphere on July the 7th, when terrorists hit London, it took several hours before people could piece all their information together, but it was interesting to read all the blogs of people's personal experiences of what happened that day. I personally was too distressed to blog much, as I was right in the middle of it, but did something when I got home. At first, it was a power failure on the tube, then another blogger said it was a power surge, then we heard it was sabotage. It was only when the bus blew up we began to realise that it might be terrorism.
I agree with Nilla re 'respectable' bloggers only passing on what they heard. So (please) try not to judge them too harshly.
Meanwhile, I totally agree with your points 1, 3, and 4.
I am with April as well on this cos I personally saw the news on this link http://www.businessdayonline.com/?c=45&a=11758 and when I heard abt it otherwise and i went back to that page,it was alrdy taken off.if u go to the page u will see that it is blank.
Nice man ..UP SKOOL!!!
I have read the piece about law students and thats scary. How do I search to find out if my real name is associated with my blog?