Even now, I get calls from reporters asking if bloggers are journalists. Sigh. The answer, of course, is that most are not, and that some are. The question is roughly the equivalent of asking whether people who write on paper are journalists. Blogging is a tool, software.

When bloggers do journalism, however, the questions of quality and integrity become just as important for them as for people in the traditional press. When traditional journalists - and many others - ...