Does It Matter If You're Not a Journalist?

I like how this article addresses this issue. At times, I struggle with the idea of whether I'm a "journalist" or not.

It used to be, that only people that were published in a magazine, or a newspaper were "real" journalists. The rest of us were just "wannabees" or "not good enough to get a job writing for the paper" or the second rung plain and simple "bloggers."

Bottom line, I keep a "journal" which makes me a by default makes me a "journalist." The thing is, that it's more complicated than that.

I like how the article explores the question of "acts of journalism" and whether or not something has "journalistic value." I'll be the first to admit that I hardly ever commit "acts of journalism" and that most of my stuff has little to no "journalistic value" but does that really make it any less important?

What do you think?

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Woman Sues After Getting Kicked Off Facebook

Apparently, she thinks that she got booted for starting a petition page to get Facebook to increase their friend limit on personal pages to beyond 5000. To me, that dog don't hunt.

There's more to this, lots more, but we're not being told what it is. Regardless, I'm sure in the Facebook TOS there's a clause that this lady broke.

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Tigers call up St. Pierre after 978 games in minors

This is a pretty cool story. Having read Seth Godin's "The Dip," it makes me wonder if he should've quit sooner.

Obviously, the payoff for him was not monetary. Still, how many people would keep playing in the minors, getting paid in peanuts, for the off chance to get to go to "the show?"

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Dear Mac OS X, I effin love you! From the first moment I saw you, way back when you were but a public beta. I just wanted to mention that. http://bit.ly/ahTZ0P

Why the Neo-Conned Tea Party Movement Used a Harmless NYC Muslim Community Center as a Political Football

I love this article. I have to admit, every time I link to, or say something nice about an Alex Jones article or site, I always feel like my name is getting added to a watch list somewhere.

I love the part where the author says:

the return of the Neo-con faction is in an all out assault against the foundations of our country, the two things which make the United States of America unique in the world, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I also really like that he calls SB1070 "Arizona's racial profiling law" which is one of the names that I've been calling that law. The other name I like to use is "Jim Crow 2.0."

I'm glad to see I'm not the only person that noticed the assault by the neocons on the constitution. Hopefully more people will become aware of the neocon's true agenda.

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Dear Windows (aka windoze) 7, please take a long walk off a short pier. I hate you. No Love, Me. http://bit.ly/bIfLzj

I should know better than to do this, but "occupied North Texas" is just hilarious http://xkcd.com/787/ http://amplify.com/u/9k1u