HERE’S A NICE ARTICLE ON BLOGGING from Charlie Madigan of the Chicago Tribune. It stands in pleasant contrast to some of the less-impressive efforts elsewhere:

Shut up with your whining and appreciate the fact that after generations of stagnation, something new has arrived. And like all new things, it’s going to take awhile for it to work itself out.

Conventional journalism seems aghast that a whole collection of independent voices from all sides of the political spectrum are popping up now to pick and smear and slander and point accusing fingers, wreck careers, cast aspersions and introduce something besides a century-old sense of entitled hierarchy to the formula for news presentation.

Read the whole thing.