Archive for October 11th, 2003

When It’s Better to Comment on Someone Else’s Blog Than Your Own

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

This post is dedicated to blog groupie Je’, who’s been exploring whether it’s better to comment on someone else’s blog than to post on your own.
Today, I ran into a prime example of when it’s better to post on someone else’s blog than write a blog post on my own and I thought of several [...]

Ambassador for the Profession

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

While I covered an event last night for the newspaper my office publishes, I met many people who had never heard of a news librarian. (Which I don’t think is all that odd: I didn’t know about news librarianship until just before I went to grad school when I got a job in a [...]

Weblogs and Journalism in Nieman Reports

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

The Fall 2003 Nieman Report with lots of items about weblogs finally hit my desk. Some of the articles are “Is Blogging Journalism?,” “Weblogs Threaten and Inform Traditional Journalism,” and “A Reporter Is Fired for Writing a Weblog.” The entire issue is available as a pdf from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism’s Web [...]


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