Have we entered a new frontier for journalism? Probably not, but it is no secret that reporters are turning to blog authors more and more to get expert quotes and to track emerging industry trends.

David Strom, a blogger and professional trade journalist, today published an article for Computerworld titled, "How to be a blogger and still keep your day job."

A catchy title. He asked bloggers to respond to his query at ComputerWorld blogger Maian Prokop's read more...

Last week, Darren at Problogger.net held a group writing project asking people to write about the habits of effective blogger and submit them. He then posted the entries to his blog. The project is now closed, but 80 blog posts were selected.

I wrote the “read more...

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The height of Web 2.0 hilarity.

Even more bizzaare? Someone willing to pay over $100 for a t-shirt ;-)

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In a case of winning the battle and losing the war…

A report by the defense department warning that using pay-to-play techniques in the Iraqi war and paying journalists for positive coverage could damage US credibility was released this week.

Well…duh!

Here is my article about the Lincoln Group the read more...

Todd Defren, who blogs at PR-Squared and works at Shift Communications embodies the spirit of what I like to call PR 2.0 or open source PR.

He also took an early lead in actually doing something about envisioning a way to spruce up the tired old read more...