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Wednesday, January 05, 2005



Blogging is dancing to a new beat. Given the ticklish nature of the latest blogging flirtations, hop aboard the blog bandwagon ... If you proscratinate you'll probably find it crowded when you do. Everyone's been saying that blogs are hot. Well, despite the fact that a supposed 62% of us don't actually know what a blog is
The best editor in America today isn't a journalist. He's Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, also known as the "Instapundit." He's endangering my livelihood. Instathreat; [Just as professionals built the Titanic and amateurs built Noah's Ark, it was amateurs with bare hands who crossed the Iron Curtain ... ]

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Invasion of the Blogs: Raising Ticklish Questions

Dan Gilmor, a respected Silicon Valley newspaper columnist, has left his position at the San Jose Mercury News to become a "citizen journalist." Gilmor published We, the Media, last summer, a look at the burgeoning grassroots journalism movement. I commented on it when it came out. Bloggers are the center of this phenomenon. Time magazine even awarded the Powerline blog as a "blogger of the year" for its investigation of Rathergate. Here's a moderate to liberal traditional news magazine recognize quality journalism in a blog by conservative lawyers from Minnesota. When the mainstream media takes notice like this, it means a corner has turned.


Citizen Journalism/ Citizen Leadership [There comes a time in the life of every writer when he asks himself -- as Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Hemingway all surely asked themselves -- if he has any booger jokes left in him. The Last Laugh: Jozef We Hardly Knew You! ]
• · If the line between bloggers and journalists has blurred, it's because too many journalists aren't doing their jobs and it was left to bloggers to find the truth of the matter I think you are an irresponsible journalist wanna-be with poor writing skills at best
• · · Jeff Jarvis writes marginalizing your own public : I smell an editor with a grudge at work in The New York Times' wrong-headed story on blogs today Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate
• · · · · Despite the fact that Big Media in general appears to be reconciling itself to the Blogosphere, there remain Big Media denizens who are having more than a little trouble adjusting to blogs. Mainstream Meltdown ; [Journalists shouldn't be cheerleaders]
• · · · · · We dream in digital ink 43 Things to do in 7 different ways ; [Little tiny winie blogs ]