Another shared value, amongst bloggers anyway, is a clue about what blogging is, and our united recognition of the way that SOME and probably MOST big media companies are predisposed to trash the whole deal…or to minimize and mock the blogosphere.

The National Debate: AP Mocks Bloggers in Wholly Inaccurate Account of BlogNashville

AP Mocks Bloggers in Wholly Inaccurate Account of BlogNashville

I spent 45 minutes with Tanner, giving him the basic outline of the event and answering his questions most of which reflected no familiarity with blogs. During the course of the interview Linda Seebach of the Rocky Mountain News and Bill Hobbs of Belmont University wandered over to the table where Tanner and I were seated and added their own thoughts to my answers to Tanner’s questions.

So, imagine my surprise when I read Tanner’s account of BlogNashville which, I am told, ran in 180 papers around the world including The Washington Post, The LA Times, the Boston Globe and papers in Asia and Europe.