Don’t waste space

Jennifer Peebles at the Net Worked blog reminds us that we should still be a little choosy about what we put online. It’s not an information dump.

Very few topics out there are truly worth an old-fashioned notebook dump, even when you’re writing for the Web. As journalists, it’s still our job to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff for our readers, and to tell them the stuff that’s interesting and important — which brings with it the responsibility of discerning what’s interesting and important, as well as having the courage to leave out all the rest. Our readers trust us to make those calls for them. And when we take them down the garden path to a destination that leaves them thinking, “Gee, that was a colossal waste of my time,” we’re going to lose that trust.

Related posts:

1. Richard Sambrook: Transparency is the new objectivity, and the Internet is not your enemy