My first post, not my first try

While this is the first post on this blog, it is not the first time I have created a blog. I took a Topics in Writing class here at MU that focused on blogging. There were other journalism students in the class that, like me were interested in seeing where blogging might be taking journalism.

That was the spring of 2006. While the blogosphere was already filled with blogging journalists, what we were talking about sounded so far off. It wasn't. Now the Missourian has gone digital, echewing (though not completly) newsprint. The topics in that class weren't that far away.

I think the question is now about balance. It's not a new question. Businesses have had to deal with the issue of where the employee ends and the blogger begins.

Will papers take the same editorial views on a blog as they would on a editorial page? Will they get the same protections? Can we keep our integrity on the Web, while still chasing the story even faster now?

The one thing to be said is that I am intrigued about the prospect of my byline showing up on some screen in outer Azerbaijan at some point.