In the last 4 months, I’ve written 60 articles. These fifteen are ones that I feel follow the style of Liebling. After the first piece, a rather sober analysis about media mistrust, I started diving headfirst into news stories. I looked at why stories broke they way they did. Like Liebling, I avoided jumping to the conclusion that some all-powerful conspiracy was to blame; instead these stories represent cirumstances where average people just ambled along, sticking with old habits, making simple mistakes, not listening to others. And it’s not just the press that’s wayward these days; it’s the new blog-press, too.

• It goes to eleven: stacking on the clutter of “citizen journalism” analysis (June 15, 2005) A review of Steve Outing’s hasty summary.
• Fixing a Blog in Time (June 7, 2005) Reviewing the personal blog of the president of the Media Bloggers Association over a two-week period.
• Trust in Gatekeepers (June 3, 2005) An interesting conference that the blogging gatekeepers missed
• The New Gatekeepers (April-May 2005). A six-part series on the transition from the old gatekeepers of media, to the “new gatekeepers” of new media.
• Promoting Women Bloggers: Less Talk and More Action plus timeline (March 15, 2005). On why it took two years for the public consciousness to finally take notice that equality wasn’t guaranteed in the blogosphere.
• When Bloggers Make the News (February 25, 2005). My talks with union-card carrying, professional writers about the suggestion that the bloggers might save them without even touching their jobs.
• Seeking Good Christians to Talk About God (February 23, 2005). My search for a demographic opposites in the blogosphere.
• Stuck at the Gates (February 22, 2005). On why it took the public over eleven months to find out who “Jeff Gannon” was.
• Shoot the Press: Responding to the Eason Jordan Controversy (February 14, 2005). Imagining a role I could have played, but didn’t, in the hubbub over the words of President of CNN at the Davos world forum.
• What lies in conversation? (February 4, 2005). Where I desperately try to have conversations over weblogs.
• Inclusivenss at the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility Conference. (January 28, 2005). Observing, mostly, a conference of bigwigs and then writing about the hoi polloi who felt their ideas were excluded.
• Dissecting the Most Important Podcast to date, (January 16, 2005). David Winer interviews Joe Trippi about the hiring of Kos.
• Theories of the Bulge plus timeline (January 9, 2005). An examination of how this story broke, and why it didn’t break any further.
• What if there were no blogosphere? (January 6, 2005). Simple thoughts on what role the blogosphere had played in media scandals.
• Was it the blogosphere that exposed the 60 Minutes memo forgeries? (January 5, 2005). Analyzing just how many bloggers it took to break this scandal– and how many supporting players operated in obscurity.
• Online Political Writers: Reactions to the Tsunami Catastrophe (December 29, 2004). Comparing the written reactions by twenty-five different bloggers and supposed bloggers.
• How come I didn’t hear about the buzz agents next door (December 5, 2004). The mainstream media transmits a trend about trend trasmission marketing– reaching me before the blogs can.
• Read Me, Not them: The Rage Against the Elite and Mainstream Madia (December 4, 2004). An analysis of what’s behind the mistrust of the “mainstream media” by the average blogger.

Prior to that, I didn’t look into the blogs very much, but I did put together a few stories about engaging other online communities.

• I hate when liberals tell lies (August 16, 2004). Email conversation with a liberal 9/11 conspiracy-monger.
• The misplaced devotion to organizational technologies (June 15, 2004). Comparing the devotees of Meetup with those of the long-gone Abuzz.
• A Tale of two Internet community sites (June 8, 2004). Where I visited the C-Span and Able2Know online communities.
• From Abu Ghraib to Fire Rumsfeld: A Timeline of Petitions (May 11, 2004). A timeline of internet calls to fire the Secretary of Defense.
• Lost in Translation: responding to defenders of the Passion (February 29, 2004). A review of comments in the BeliefNet forum by the apologists of anti-Semitism in Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ.