A friend recently asked me “are you a blogger?”
I love and hate the term “blog.” It’s so trendy now.
The reality is that the PowerPage pre-dates the term “blog” by quite a while. I started the PowerPage in 1995, before Dave’s Scripting News (1997) and Slashdot (1997) and even before the Way Back Machine at Archive.org (1996).
I don’t write about what I ate for breakfast, what CD I’m listening too, or about my sister’s favorite boy band.
The PowerPage is a serial publication, that publishes daily and it’s independent. Which are blog-esque qualities. But, in addition to the PowerPage, I’ve been a paid contributor to MacWeek, MacWorld, MacAddict, MacPower and the MacBible over the years.
So while being a “blogger” doesn’t automatically make you a professional journalist, being a paid journalist for print and online pubs for over 10 years definitely does.
Case closed.
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