"I didn't even know Massachusetts had foothills": The Murky Future of Online Journalism

Know More: Steve Bryant, Video Storytelling, Web Journalism 2.0, Web Journalism

"When I posted that bit about Comcast and Google yesterday, I swear I didn't think many folks would care. But all of a sudden I started getting these quacky e-mails about how Comcast was intentionally blocking Google, or how Google was intentionally blocking Comcast, or how Google was financing a paramilitary force with black helicopters in the foothills of Massachusetts. And that's odd, because I didn't even know Massachusetts had foothills."

That's what Steve Bryant wrote after rumors of a Google outage swirled along the eastern seaboard. Thousands of readers turn to his GoogleWatch site every week for advice and gossip about everybody's favorite search engine.

Steve writes at the Online Journalism Review and edits the Reel Pop blog, but he pretends he doesn't know how any of this happened. I think it's because people like to read his chilled out style mixed with hardboiled reporting.

Today, Steve points us towards a couple pioneers in his madcap corner of the blogosphere.

Welcome to the third installment of my interview with Steve Bryant, part of my deceptively simple feature: Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a serialized set of weekly interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web publishing.

Jason Boog:
You are a new sort of writer--trained as a journalist, but cutting your teeth in blogs. What will journalism look like in 10 years? What can a fledgling writer do to prepare for this new job climate?

Steve Bryant:
You're talking to the guy that spent $60,000 on journalism grad school when he could have just, I dunno, started a blog and published photos of celebrity nipple slips.

So pardon me if I'm fresh out of predictions. I would ask this question of Rafat Ali or Om Malik or Steve Outing.

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