Here's another link to an academic explaining why we blog.

Good one! I love the scribblingwoman blog.

Chris

coincidentally (or is it?!?) i've been working with a UNC CH master's student who is looking at credibility, msm and new media. she asked for help on her lit review. i checked a few files and plucked out the following (all of which i'll bring to la). one or two might be redundant with christine's (sorry)

Thomas J Johnson and Barbara A Kaye, wag the blog: how reliance on traditional media and the internet influence credibility perceptions of weblogs among blog users, JQ, Autumn 2004.

Kelly Heyboer's "bloggin in the newsroom" AJR 25, 8 (2003/20004)

Jesse Oxfeld, "letting the blogs out" E&Pub, 1 March 2005

Robert S. Boynton, new media may be old media's savior, CJR, 38, 3 (2000)

Paul Andrews, Is Blogging Journalism?, Neiman Reports, Fall 2003 (and a whole bunch of other blog articles in this neiman reports issue, half devoted to new media, half to the black press)

Michael Falcone, does an editors pencil ruin a web log, I THINK the NYTimes, 29 Sept. 2003 C9. not sure. i've got the article.

peace out

christine,
love your blog. you'll be required reading for my digicom class.

mutual fan club there, Brian. I'm looking forward to meeting you in L.A.

I'm still not sure I've found the voice of that new blog yet, or its sensibility, but like with my other ones, I'll just kinda grope around until the voice settles down.

Chris