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But, some guy who happens to be respected throws something on his own site or something, you start to run into problems.

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And then you'd have nothing but site pimpers inundating the board with the links to their crappy ass blogs that they have convinced themselves are actually worth reading.

No thanks.

People have plenty of space here to voice their very important and informative opinions.

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but it also helps promote their site.

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Indeed. Leave well enough alone, because things are fine the way they are.
I'm not interested in someone's attention seeking blogs; we have Dawgtalkers, which provides more than ample opportunity to post opinions.

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I thought that "attempting to go legit" was a process, with a learning curve, whereby someone studies a subject until they become at least somewhat of an authority on it, has social and business contacts within that realm, and also understands the specifics and complexities of the subject so that he therefore has a valid, respected and sought after opinion.

If all going "legit" means is starting a blog whether one has any idea what they're talking about or not, then absolutely anyone can do it. Anyone can start a blog.

So if everyone starts a blog then everyone's "legit"?

If only it were that easy.

And if one does start a blog as the first step in following the process to become "legit", that doesn't mean that this board is legally bound to allow such blogs to be posted while the author struggles through the learning curve in his quest of authentically having a clue.

I am a graphic artist. With that skill I can design, print and sign myself a "Certificate of Authorization to Perform Brain Surgery". But it doesn't make me a brain surgeon.

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I thought that "attempting to go legit" was a process, with a learning curve, whereby someone studies a subject until they become at least somewhat of an authority on it, has social and business contacts within that realm, and also understands the specifics and complexities of the subject so that he therefore has a valid, respected and sought after opinion.

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My thought process is this...

Media is changing. Why apply for a job and go the traditional route, working in small newspapers for low pay, tied to AP-style journalistic standards? That would suck. I don't even want that to be my career anyway. My writing is a hobby.

Look at Profootballtalk.com. Florio took his hobby and turned it into an empire. That's something I'd like to achieve.

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I guess that, in a nutshell, is where I have a problem with your thought process. Why study brain surgery when I could just start doing it? Eventually someone I operate on will live through it. Is that how someone becomes "legit"?

Regarding blogs: There's a lot more to being authoritative in a field then simply being published. It used to be, going the traditional route, it was a requirement that you be authoritative on a subject just to get published at all. But as you say, media is changing, any Tom, Dick and Ammo can be published on the internet because there are no requirements. The only requirement is the desire to do so. There's not much backing that up.

So in the beginning, some people may read a blog and believe what they read, even if the blogger don't know crap. They'll believe him because he's published. He has a blog. If enough people read that blog and accepts his opinion as a basis for their own then all that's been accomplished is to have watered down the knowledge base. They'll try and talk on the subject with others who gain their information from more accredited sources and arguments will ensue. They won't understand the grief they are getting because they know they got their information from the "internet". What they don't know is that the information was crap from the start. Why? Because the blogger was not authoritative on the subject since he was just starting out. But who knew?

The world is certainly changing. But changing media or not, there is no shortcut to becoming proficient. There is no shortcut to becoming an expert. If that is the goal one wishes to attain then one must practice and study and practice and study and practice and study. And if the goal is to become a virtuoso violinist please excuse me if I choose not to listen to the practicing while it still sounds of the shrieks as the pulling of a cat's tail.

The same goes for blogs. I'll go for the accredited people who are in the know, have plenty of background and inside information and have been working in the field long enough to be authoritative on the subject.

What you are making it sound like, for example, is that you don't like my opinion on football because really, let's face it, I'm only ddubia. What the hell do I know? But were I to publish the same opinion in my blog then you should give it more credence and merit because, after all, it's in a blog.

I'm not suggesting that you don't blog. I'd never discourage anyone from writing as a hobby in hopes that someday they'll both become, and be accepted as, a professional. But in the meantime, especially starting out, you can't expect, for example, this site, (which has a policy of trying to keep the internet links to football talk of a accurate, factual, bona fide, legitimate, official, trustworthy, valid and verifiable nature by linking only to accredited, credible sources), to allow your blog to be posted in the message board.

If that were to happen we'd all start blogs and get them posted on the board. Which, by the way, is what we all do anyway. We post our opinions freely and without limit. We just don't link to them to give them the false appearance of being "legit".