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The czar of Beliefnet is on fire, right now, when it comes to analyzing the mix of religion and rumor that is dominating American politics at the moment (even while the stock market rages on).
I spent part of my day in Washington, D.C., at the annual convention of the Religion Newswriters Association. The topic? What in the world is going on with blogging?
There are times when it seems as if the World Wide Web has always been around, like a public utility. But if you look at cyberspace in terms of journalism history, we are still very early in the transition to whatever the heckfire is going to happen next.
I am a huge fan of the old Sim games. I hardly ever play anymore, but games such as Sim City played a significant role in my upbringing. Since I am GetReligion’s “token normal American young male” according to Terry, I have the honor of writing about the religion ghosts in the Spore story.
If you had any doubts, it has been proven that we are in an age in which the mainstream press is trying to figure out where the blogging ends and the news begins.
What a week. In addition to all that is going on in religion, politics and the politics of religion, I am ultra-busy due to the arrival of this fall’s students for work at the Washington Journalism Center (my day job, in other words).
As far as I know, veteran Godbeat and popular culture scribe Mark Pinsky isn’t dead (although I haven’t heard from him in a week or two, so I will check). His website is nice and up-to-date looking.
The czar of all things Beliefnet, one Steve Waldman, has donned his reporter hat once again in order to pound out a timeline describing who did what in the negotiations that produced the Democratic Party’s proposed platform statement on abortion.
