Blogging is NOT journalism
March 23, 2007Yes, I am blogging. But make no mistake blogging is not journalism. To me blogging is voicing your opinions in writing on the world-wide-web. It is like writing your diary or journal and makes it open to the public. It is not new. Blogging in fact may date back to the early years of print journalism. The first issue of the first American newspaper Public Occurrence published in 1690 carried a blank page in the paper for people to record their own news and views. To me, that was the beginning of blogging using the available channels then. Today the web is our channel. Tomorrow, who knows… For now, enjoy the blog and please never ever consider blogging journalism. It is NOT. It is just our new virtual barber shop’s or beauty salon’s gossips and chats.
Mr. Magazine 
Information Architects have an interesting take on this topic…
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/10-newspaper-myths-deconstructed
Blogging might get reduced to 50% less by 2010 as many of the them start realized as money making thru blogging is not a piece of cake
see how this blogger expresses his insanity http://www.ceveni.com/2009/06/am-i-victim-of-blogging-syndrome-and.html yes as you say blogging is not just a platform to express ones personal thoughts and ideas