are you a blogger?

if so... you should read this piece from the the NY Times:

At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers Reporters, Too? "'As the mainstream media has become more and more corporate and more and more like the governmental and corporate bodies that mainstream journalists used to report on,' he said, 'a lot of this stuff has fallen now to the bloggers - to do what mainstream folks used to do. It's still serving the exact same purpose: keeping the bad guys honest.'"

If not... you should read this: Who Is a Journalist? - Anybody who wants to be.