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November 23, 2004
Real Journalist or Blogger? You be the judge
I know it's a thin news week, with the Thanksgiving holiday and all, but David Pogue should know better.
In his New York Times Technology section blog today, he answers an Enquiring Mind:
"Seeing that you have now launched a DAILY blog on NYTimes.com, I have to wonder: how do you manage writing a weekly column supplemented by hilarious videos and a separate e-mail column for the Times, plus writing and editing books in the Missing Manual series, plus doing television commentaries, plus being a speaker at tech conferences, plus being a dad, husband, homeowner, and all those other normal things, plus now writing a daily blog as well? I'm not trying to be obsequeous, I'm just flabbergasted. Do you work 18 hours a day or are you just exceptionally well-organized?""
Read on to see Superman in action.
This is precisely the kind of navel-gazing that leads Real Journalists to castigate self-indulgent Bloggers - a pitfall even David Pogue, whose work I generally admire, apparently couldn't avoid.
Links:
Pogue's Posts, 23 November 2004
For some real blogger navel-gazing, plus links to some great online journalism, check out OnlineJournalist.org, edited by yours truly, Doug Millison, "on a need-to-know basis."
November 23, 2004 11:17 AM
