I know I fall somewhere on that spectrum. Am I a journalist? Honestly, I care less about the answer than I once did. I am not being blase – I care very deeply about journalism, but there are few things more boring than journalists arguing over what counts as journalism. We live in a world full of stories, about amazing people doing amazing things and terrible people doing terrible things. I will use every medium I can to tell those stories. I will try to tell them accurately so people aren’t misled. I will try to tell them well so people will listen. If people want to argue about what to call that, that’s fine for them.

Blogging, even about celebrities, is not glamorous. Mr. Eng posts about 65 items per day, seven days a week, from the moment he wakes up — sometimes at 5 a.m. Sometimes he doesn’t sleep.

Having a platform may be fun at first, but building a following takes much more work than simply typing and posting.

In other words, Seeking Alpha here isn’t really paying per pageview at all. (If it were, it would pay contributors of all articles, not just exclusive articles.) What’s really happening is that Seeking Alpha is buying premium content, at zero up-front cost, which it can then resell in any way it likes and for as much money as it likes, with none of those revenues being shared with the author.

This blog is going to ask for your indulgence. It is frankly obsessed with the 15-minute video at Cleveland.com that both Katharine and I wrote about yesterday. We're thinking of changing the name of this blog to the How Crazy Was That Cleveland Plain Dealer Video? Blog.

It's just such a stunning example of newspaper-industry hubris and cluelessness. True confession: I'm writing about it for the second time, and I still haven't made it past the 10-minute mark, where Cleveland Plain Dealer "reader representative" Ted Diadiun refers to bloggers as "a bunch of pipsqueaks."

Digress. (Especially (auto)biographically. Note that Gorky was born Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, and "Maxim" derives from his Father's name, the "-ovich" being a patronymic ending. Thus does one Maxim beget another. Hopefully, more on Russian and other naming conventions in a later log. And perhaps someone more literary or political than I will have something to say about "the father of Soviet literature and the founder of the doctrine of socialist realism," and the reason Nizhny Novgorod was for many years hard to find on a map. The Nizhny Novgorodites are still proud of Gorky as far as I can tell, but not enough to have their city bear his name. (Beaver, Utah is not named for me (or vice versa (note the embedded parenthetical - these are good)), but it is apparently the birthplace of Butch Cassidy, ne Robert LeRoy Parker. So why "Butch"? Well, he once worked as a butcher. His most famous partner in crime (aka Harry Longabaugh) was nom de guerred in a reverse Gorky manoever:

the strategy says bookmark first, then blog, and only then twitter. as long as you have a plan, that's ok by me.

"i am so blogging this" - 3 wise men

To put it simply, Cook’s website has become the place for Michigan football coverage. In just a few years, he has overthrown the ranks of professional journalists who cover the team, representing a drastic change in the culture of news coverage (in this case, the coverage of Michigan football), a change that most major newspapers have yet to adapt to. Traditional sports coverage is vulnerable to new competition in its own way. As Cook has shown, a guy in the stands can have an edge over the big-name columnists in the press box.

Blogging may not have been my first choice, but as I investigated options, it seemed the right way to go. I wanted to build a community in which people could find solace from their stressful day as a care giver. I envisioned my blog becoming an outlet for others and a way to record stories of loved ones with AD. I want my blog to turn into a community for those in need of finding assistance with their loved one with AD. This is the focus of my efforts - a place to share my ideas and hopefully get others involved in the conversation.

death of the blog predicted, film at 11

paul boutin on the death of blogs for wired

AOL Senior VP of Programming Marty Moe held a conference call for all the bloggers in the Weblogs Inc. network this afternoon, a week after cutbacks and work slowdowns across the network put staff into a panic and shed a negative light on the business of blogging in general. Moe told staff that in fact, Weblogs Inc. is growing fast, seeing record traffic and consistent revenue growth.

3. The new Compose screen has a footnote feature, which makes me very happy.

Still, it is a sober reminder that you need to make money to stay alive in the harsh online world, and that means adopting to the current situation, or perish

Linkbloggers also need to study how to craft short headlines that boil down stories to their essence-- hardly anybody has even recognised the importance of this

top publishers get a major share of the headline space because talent, vigilance, reputation, fame, and most importantly, access to breaking news is not evenly distributed.

Griff Wigley w/a good set of experiences in teaching civic leaders how to be bloggers

It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light.

Some time ago I said that the only blogging guidelines we need are "Don't write crap, don't link to crap and if you see someone else writing crap take them to task about it."

Installing MAMP and running Wordpress locally on your Mac is a simple task, however I was unable to find any good documentation while I was attempting to do it for the first time which made it seem really difficult.

OK, I talked with Linda French and she’s agreed to give us the front part of Frenchie’s from 7:00 to 9:00 on the evening of Thursday, February 21 for our little get together of bloggers, local elected officials, and blog readers.

If you have a Facebook account, you can automatically share new public TypePad posts with Facebook. When you create a new post, you can choose to send a link to that post into Facebook. These links will appear in your Mini-Feed on your Facebook pr

But curated systems will be gamed. Everything on the Interent will be gamed. And user generated content won't stay "user" generated forever. The pros will crash any party that's worth crashing and make it their own.

Last night there was an industry “pajama” party at the Hard Rock Cafe, drinks, food, chocolate fountain and live performances really made it a must-attend.

blog about branding

your embedded microreporter reports on a conference on small community sites

twittering using the command line; the simplest possible curl script as a front end to twitter updates.

I haven't actually given up on paper notebooks, but I find that I tend to write more about the organization of the book, and the management of the project itself, on paper. I do some Big Thinking on paper, but increasingly the bits and pieces start out in

The Daily Telegraph’s hub-and-spokes newsroom exemplifies the cult of the eyeball. Web operations stand in the middle, and digital screens constantly list articles with the most page-views. “It's like a page-view shrine,” writes Achenback.

You can't stand the fact that we bombard you with emails asking you to write about products, and we often don't take the time to even read your blogs to see if you might be interested.

I don’t want to put a dollar figure on Twitter, based on users or something. That is not my point about the value of the service. Rather I just want to emphasize that Twitter is where the action is.

Simply send me a draft of your tips on productivity, finance, parenting, technology, or anything that you believe average people could use. Please refer to the 2 posts shown above as guides.

but not bzzzagent, which is a parked domain; didn't try all the z{2,10}agent combinations

This release of ecto3 is an alpha-release. In other words, it has bugs and it has missing features that will be incorporated in later versions

As for today, I suspect some executives at CBC News are now making Tod Maffin Voodoo Dolls. Why do I feel a sharp pain in my back? :-(

The researcher constructed a model of librarianship based on Wilson and Buckland. The results show a close fit between librarian bloggers and the ideals of the field as expressed by two primary library and information science philosophers.

tOKo: open source tool for text analysis

awesome Facebook demographics of Jon's high school, showing the steep transition from < 1% use in his cohort to 50%+ use in 2007

This plugin creates a backup of all changes to posts and pages and allows you to revert back to an old version if needed. (No updates since 2005; sounds like the right idea, though.)

moving postings from one blog to another using a script in ecto

A friend once told me that his mother had instructed him never to write anything in an email that he would not write on a postcard. But the average blog is much more public and widely-read than the average postcard (even if we include the postcards which

How can we capitalise on heroin's addictiveness? Discuss.

I'm completely fascinated by Twitter right now--in much the same way I was by blogging four years ago, and by ICQ years before that.

how the creative messages look, what color the ads are, what sites they're placed on and where on each site, what time of day they run and how frequently - is determined at least in part by software applications known as "creative optimizers."

I was just clearing my desk of some papers and found a little list I had made one day in preparation for a meeting to help a company think about the considerations for starting a business blog. Since I don't want to keep the scrap of paper, I'm reproducin

1. search engines 2. your fans 3. your customers are talking already 4. ??? 5. PROFIT!!!!

checklist to improve search results from wordpress blogs. 23 item checklist (the net loves checklists)

the next step is a little bit of javascript to auto-populate this at page load time

this is some amazing comment thread on cisco vs apple, on cisco's own blog. seize the media!

ron was at lunch today

but no patron blogs

Pure visibility. A blog is a way to create more visibility for your company, if properly tied to your corporate website.

story w/photo.

sure wish that typepad made this easier - sip you listening?

How to submit your blog RSS feed to Yahoo's search tools.

how is blogging like building cathedrals?

why blogs will be everywhere? and on blogs as role-playing games

Marc Brown will be at Supernova 2005

Oh right. Thanks Jason. Your blog post, accompanied by a great big ad - "please don't pimp" indeed.