It will be on between 10-11pm EST (8-9pm WST) & 30 minutes earliear in South australia, plus I think there will be some talkback as well.

Blogging … is… not… journalism.
Political blogging is very close to oped, but a lot of blogging is creative writing, nothing to do with journalism at all.

I’m thinking that an artificial boundary seems to exist between MSM and blogs. While MSM commentators (Doogue included) still step around blogs and bloggers as if they were media interlopers without journalistic credibility and objectivity, bloggers themselves are not helping by accentuating the differences between themselves and their paid counterparts.

Sure, bloggers don’t regularly break stories but then again neither do most paid journalists. A quick look at a metropolitan newspaper or TV news shows that most stories are either imported from other agencies, or developed upon already existing themes. Journalists and bloggers alike use these techniques. What makes the article worth reading is the quality of the writing and the original research behind it, regardless of the media.

What blogging has added to the traditional form of expression is freedom from a sometimes stultifying objectivity and the ability to add user comment to the story. While the Australian may whinge about bloggers, most of their on-line op-ed journalists are moving towards this model anyway. The time is coming soon where the only difference between journalists and bloggers will be the “brand” under which they write.

Maybe then the arguments can move on to the more interesting questions of the message not the media.

But Geraldine didn’t ask you to translate ‘lavartus prodeo’.
I’ve lost my Latin dictionary…
amo
amas
amat

(surely not something about prodding a lavatory?…)

Ambigulous

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Funny, I did a comment here this morning and it vanished into a black hole!

Fair go Phil, I don’t have me egg stained cardy on at that time on a Saturdy mornin. Rather, the nifty monogrammed pj ensemble. Well done Mark. The march goes on for blogging recognition despite the older media scaredy pants.

Which is OK. I should make a mint setting up typo domains, syndicating the LP RSS feeds, and selling adsense space.