Tue Apr 12/05
Cheap exhibitionism

Samantha Israel (of Blog on Blog) has a pretty damn solid article on this whole "online journalism" thing in the spring edition of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. While she does delve into many of the key blog-related issues of the day, I think the article works best as a sort of primer. To that end, it provides the uninitiated with the only fact they really need to know about online journalism (one that's almost universally overlooked): it's like regular journalism, only it's online. Some of it's really good, and a lot of it's crap — just like at your grandfather's old-timey newsstand. Memo to these people who keep complaining about lax editing on the weblogs: have a gander up the Calgary Sun's frock and get back to me.