SCS2114 - Some Reading To Do On Your Way Out the Door

Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2010: who bloggers are, how bloggers do it, and how much they make. Don't miss previous years' editions.

"The News About the Internet," the New York Review of Books' definitive look at how—at least as of summer, 2009—media and blogs interact and overlap.

"Cut This Story!" from the usually much wordier Atlantic. "One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long."

"How Blogs are Becoming More Like Newspapers," from Gawker, one of the best blogs out there—and one that's been not undeservedly accused of being one of those parasites that David Simon is quoted slagging in the New York Review of Books article.

"What Exactly Is a Blog?" After an angry, confused email from a retired editor ("I still do not understand [blogs]. Nor do I like them"), The New York Times' public editor solicits The New York Times' managing editor to quickly defend how their paper uses blogs and blogging.

"Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the numbers don't add up,'" in The Guardian. One of the best thinkers about the internet thinks about the future of the internet and those in the media trying to take advantage of it.

And if you haven't yet, the Gene Weingarten Washington Post column and Ryerson Review of Journalism article, previously linked to here, are must-reads if you're interested in how the internet affects (or ruins, as it were) writing.