I spoke at the first Bloggercon last year and enjoyed it. Missed the second one last spring. Dave Winer asked me to moderate a discussion at the next one, on Nov. 6 at Stanford, and I was game. The topic is the next phase of the continuing dialogue on blogging and journalism. The previous discussions led by Ed Cone and Jay Rosen set high standards I’ll aim to match.
I’ve been a pro journalist for 20 years but I’ve always been on one fringe or another — first, as a writer for an alternative weekly; then, as a theater critic on the “wrong” coast, writing for the underdog afternoon paper here in San Francisco; then, as a migrant from the print world to the Web, here at Salon; most recently, as a pro editor turned blogger. Since I started my publishing career in my teens cranking out mimeographed Diplomacy and Dungeons & Dragons magazines in my basement, the new world of self-publishing makes me feel right at home.
I’ll do my best to steer us out of the shallow familiar waters (is blogging journalism? Of course! Much of the time, anyway) and toward what I feel are the more challenging questions about journalists’ and bloggers’ symbiotic relationship. I’ve tried to lay some of them out here. Feel free to join the discussion over on the Bloggercon site, or at the event, or right here.
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