Okay, maybe it is because I to try to see things in black or white (but realize everything is really a shade of gray) that I try to label things.
The term “citizen journalist” has been bandied about in the blogosphere.
Then, I posted that “citizen columnist” would be a better term to describe bloggers.
I still think that. But, now I’ve come up with another, maybe better, more descriptive term. Or, at least an analogy of what bloggers really are.
We’re all just the online versions of talk radio hosts. Think about it. Talk show hosts:
> Give opinion.
> Give news (typically via interviews).
> Invite listener call in.
Isn’t that what blogs are all about? Original content. (Except those that primarily give links and news from elsewhere. Who needs that? I can get that information from Google or Yahoo! alerts.)
– Mike at the Mic
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