Blogging For Fun & Profit (Not to Mention Prestige)
Does blogging now have higher prestige than magazine writing?
It used to be that newspaper and magazine writers were insisting that blogging wasn’t journalism. Now we have unpaid bloggers saying that magazine writing isn’t really blogging!
The above was taken (out of context) from Andrew Gelman (Feel free to read his entire post: Who is or is not a “blogger”?.)
The point I am making is, ‘prestige’ , or at least the perception of prestige has changed.
Example: You are in charge of hiring new college grads for your company;
each one has a resume that says what school they attended, who they interned for, their grade point average, etc. ONE of them includes the address to their blog they have operated for the past 2-3 years since their sophomore or junior year at college. In that time, they have written 50-200 ‘articles’ or posts about their major and relating to the kind of job they want to be looking for after graduation.
