He might be writing for an SaaS audience, but he’s writing about the blog format, which is built to facilitate crowdsourced magazine journalism or editorial-style content. Now, he’s quite right that the format’s poorly suited to long-form or reference-style content, but starting a post with “let’s talk about blogging” and proceeding to talk about all the ways it sucks for those content types, without much more than a word for its intended purpose, strikes me as a pretty serious omission.
If instead he’d framed it as “blogs are often misused”, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But that’s not where we’re standing.
He might be writing for an SaaS audience, but he’s writing about the blog format, which is built to facilitate crowdsourced magazine journalism or editorial-style content. Now, he’s quite right that the format’s poorly suited to long-form or reference-style content, but starting a post with “let’s talk about blogging” and proceeding to talk about all the ways it sucks for those content types, without much more than a word for its intended purpose, strikes me as a pretty serious omission.
If instead he’d framed it as “blogs are often misused”, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But that’s not where we’re standing.
What makes it serious? What purpose does including journalism in the article serve?