On Being a Journalist With A Blog

David Carr has a great piece in the New York Times about the the way blogs are changing the life of the newspaper writer. Also discussed: the crack-like addictiveness of blog comments, the intimacy of electrons, and the harsh judgment of web analytics.

There has always been a feedback loop in journalism — letters to the editor, the phone and more recently e-mail messages. But a blog provides feedback through a fire hose. The nice thing about putting out a newspaper was that, at some point, the story was set and the writer got to go home. Now I have become a day trader, jacked in to my computer and trading by the second in my most precious commodity: me. How do they like me now? What about ... now? Hmmmm ... Now?