Blogging – The First Draft of History

Further to my post “For Whom the Digital Bells Tolls” about Andrew Sullivan and the Kindle electronic books last week, he has put his mouse-weary hand up again this weekend as a journalist of the most progressive sort. In discussing his self-appointed role as gatherer and disseminator of protest messages coming out of Tehran via Twitter he said “I felt last week more like a DJ than a journalist, compiling and sampling and remixing the sounds, sights events and words streaming out of an ever shifting drama.”

Talking of the need to sift out rumours rather than facts and disinformation tweets planted by the Iranian regime he explains that it “meant occasional corrections and revisions – but the point of blogging is a first draft of history, warts and all”