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Well, actually, not really.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve been thinking about journalism and blogs this week, for three reasons.<\/p>\n

First, I received a couple comments and then a personal email regarding a post that I wrote earlier in the week.\u00a0 The correspondence came from a friend who is also an academic, and she challenged the lack of sophistication in my post, saying that I was slinging around terminology in a sloppy manner.\u00a0 In an email response I agreed, and then went on to say that blogging is a medium that is different-in-kind than the kind of work she\u2019s used to doing.\u00a0 I then joked that I hoped she wouldn\u2019t have the same criticism of my dissertation!<\/p>\n

Next, I read this piece<\/a> by my favorite blogger, Andrew Sullivan.\u00a0 Andrew really has been a shaping force in the blogging medium.\u00a0 In has Atlantic<\/em> essay, he argues that the blogging form is still evolving, but that it is turning out to be a uniquely postmodern form of communication, one that lends itself to quick, timely, opinionated thoughts.<\/p>\n

Money quote: \u201cFor bloggers, the deadline is always now. Blogging is therefore to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sullivan goes on to argue that traditional daily journalism (e.g., daily newspapers) and long-form journalism (The Atlantic<\/em>, The New York Time Sunday Magazine<\/em>) become more relevant and more important in this era.\u00a0 Blogging merely represents a new facet in the evolving constellation of media.\u00a0 Really, I urge you to read Sullivan\u2019s whole essay if blogs are a part of your life.<\/p>\n

Finally, I read this post by Jeff Jarvis<\/a> on the death of newspaper journalism.\u00a0 I have a great affinity for daily newspaper journalism, in that my grandfather rose from copy boy to executive editor of the Minneapolis Tribune (all without a college degree), and one of my good friends is a journalist at a daily.\u00a0 Jarvis takes on the conventional wisdom of the day that says that blogs and craigslist<\/a> have killed newspapers.\u00a0 Not so fast, he says.\u00a0 What is killing newspapers is the lack of imagination among journalists.<\/p>\n

Money quote: \u201cNo, the essence of the problem is that we thought the internet represented just a new gadget and not a fundamental change in society, the economy, and thus journalism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I prepare to move my blog over to Beliefnet<\/a> in coming weeks, am thinking about exactly how I see blogging and my role in the blogosphere \u2014 particularly among those who are interested in reading about God and spirituality and church and religion.\u00a0 It will be, I am sure, an evolving conversation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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