"A blog is one of many ways I communicate. If I were a carpenter and I used a hammer in my work, I wouldn't be called a hammerer. I am a father and a husband and a business owner and a friend and a church-member and several other things. I use a blog to communicate, but I also use flickr.com/photos/rexblog and del.icio.us/rexblog and kaboodle.com/rex and a phone and email and IM and iChat AV and several other things."
Too many writers cringe when they hear the word "blogger." Out of all my friends in the freelance writing world in New York City, I can't think of a single person who would define themselves as a blogger. "I'm a writer," we tell friends, avoiding the blogger tag like a disease. Rex points out that it's just another tool in the writer's toolbox, and I'm going to point out that it's a mode of communication that all "writers" will have to reckon with if they are to survive.
On a related note, Bob Stepno, a writer who can be defined as a "journalist" or a "blogger," continued the discussion on his Other Journalism Weblog--playing with the ways we journalists love to dodge the term "blogger" as well.
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