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Today while looking through Dtoid today I noticed Jim’s feature titled “Are games bloggers less trustworthy than 'real' journalists?” and this got me thinking. While I was trying to type a comment for about ten minutes to articulate a response to a question I have, I noticed that I couldn’t in a comment because it is more of a question to the readers than to the writer. So here is my question, why are sites like Kotaku and Dtoid still considered blogs?

If you look at both sites, and sites of similar nature, you notice it is very different than a wordpress or tumblr blog because those sites don’t have staff of editors or features writers. There are about 40,000 registered Dtoiders not mentioning people who just read the site and does a blog by Bob and his friends have that same amount of users, probably not. Dtoid does use a blogging system for posting stories but I see that now more of a style choice than just any normal blog.

A site like Dtoid basically does the same thing as a site like Gamespot but on a smaller scale. The one problem though that I am facing though is what do we call sites like Dtoid because this site does coverage same as “real” journalist sites do but is independent. So is there a middle ground everyone can agree upon or am I being an idiot and no one cares as long as it is good?



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I agree...the difference between sites like IGN and blogs like Dtoid, Joystiq, and Kotaku seems to be purely in the way the sites are structured. There may be a little less personality to the "nonblogs" stories, but otherwise the line is beginning to blur.

*cue NIN song*

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I seriously thought this blog was just going to be the words

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To answer your question, Ziff-Davis and other corporations say that Destructoid is a blog.

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I don't even know... I just really like dtoid especially compared to everything else so this is where I go for gaming news and info. Blog or whatever you wanna call this site it's a fantastic place for information and honesty in the gaming culture. We're not quite a family but we are all definitely gamers. I like to think of this place as a "Gamily." A family of gamers.

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