they're cancelling most of that tour, anyway.

they are cancelling most of that tour, anyway.

ps: why isn't this letting me comment, as if i'm a first time commenter?

jhimm - not sure what's going on. I've gotten both comments. The third comment you posted to an older comment did not go through as that post (i love kung fu monkey) as i've got a filter on older posts to stop spam.

I dunno, I had a lot more fun as an 'embedded photographer' for a short two month tour with The Indigo Girls 5 years ago and BNL in the winter of 2003/4.

'embedded blogger'? Sounds like someone still believes (and proably got a college research grant to study it) that the internet is really New Media instead of nothing more than The Same Old Thing, Just Happening A Lot Faster.

iu - I'm not that big of a dixie chicks fan, but I figure this could lead to other "embedded" blogger gigs that I would care about. :-) It's all about the networking!

>>>>>someone still believes that the internet is really New Media instead of .....

Yup. I believe that there are instances in life where if you get into something at the right time, then it can change your life. Right now, MSM is treating blogging as a separate entity (hence the article and it's "newsworthiness"). NOW would be a good time to talk it up and get this kind of thing entrenched and make a name for one's self as someone who travels around, PR blogging. Eventually, PR blogging will be a way of life (may already have jumped the shark) and if you've got a huge following and/or a huge clientele, you win. While it would be cool, I'm just not a good enough writer to seriously pursue.

didn't realize it was that old of a post.
gotcha.

jhimm - I've had to do more restrictions on my blog due to freakin' spam. *sigh*

embedded blogging sounds to me like its basically the same as what Rolling Stone used to do, but instead of condensing all the journaling into a single article when the tour is over, you can make it public one bit at a time.

nothing new media about it,
nothing old media about it.

as soon as someone figures out
how newspaper companies
can start making money
by having their reports blog
instead of producing "a newspaper"
then blogging will cease to be a buzz word
and everyone will shut up
and it will just be more business as usual.

hopefully that'll be soon.
i'm getting way over it already.

The Village Voice and other city-specific weeklies it owns already encourages and partially requires its' reporters to maintain an up to date daily blog that compliments their feature writing.

a number of papers are doing that.

the real key,
however,
will come,
when those blogs -replace- the paper entirely.

these companies have not yet figured out
that thinking of their product
as a single, physical object that you buy
is costing them a fortune
and is a rapidly dying market,
whereas instant, up to date, online subscriptions
are what everyone is looking for,
and would have a lot less overhead.