Thoughts of a New Blogger...

As a student of the College of Communication, it's somewhat surprising that I've never given the "blogosphere" a sustained effort. I thought about blogging once, but wrote only sporadically. So, here I am, writing a "new blogger's journal" for Boston University's new lifestyle magazine, The Buzz -- an assignment that requires me to write in this thing more than three times over the course of six to eight months.

Don't get me wrong, I like blogs. As a sports journalism major, I enjoy reading blogs written by students, experts and columnists. However, I'm still not convinced that all blogging is hard journalism, and it peeves me when some bloggers label themselves citizen journalists. Bloggers don't answer to any editors, most don't go through formal training and most don't gather news themselves. What they write sure can be a good read, though.

While blogging may not always constitute "real" journalism, I do think that the "blogosphere" is a good arena for citizens and journalists to comment on a wide variety of things -- from fashion to Barack Obama's Nobel Prize. Hey, it might even be nice to break free from the structured writing style of my News Writing and Reporting class as I write about things in the greater Boston area that affect college students. Who knows? Maybe I'll even become a bonafide blogger myself...

That's all for now.

-Brian