One of the reason I like to read blogs is to see new and interesting points of view. I also scan the editorial page of the paper, but I never find anything as insightful as this.

Link: apophenia: Are Bloggers Journalists? Wrong Question..

Paper. What do people use paper for? They take notes, write lists, document their lives, and publish things. Hmm. These practices sound a lot like some of what people do with blogs, only using a different medium. Of course, i’ll be the first to argue that blogs and paper are architecturally very very very different – that have notably different affordances and result in entirely different culture. But they both have an array of practices associated with them. And thus, you would never ask something like "Are paperists journalists?"

We know that not all bloggers are journalists. The question then becomes – are some? Well, this is where it gets interesting. Who gets to determine who is and is not a journalist?