Welcome to Words in Edgewise

I’ve been blogging since 2002 and I’ve had loads of blogs since then. My first widely-read blog was The National Debate which achieved notoriety for catching Maureen Dowd using an ellipsis to manufacture a quote from President Bush which led to the coining of the term "Dowdification" by James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal. The blog got even more attention when The New York Times brought legal action against me and was able to (briefly) shut down my blog. You can more about it in my bio.

Over time, as my interests have changed, I have gotten more interested in writing about citizen journalism and topics related to my work running the Media Bloggers Association. It seemed like a new blog was in order. I created an early version of this blog back in April 2006 but shortly after we began to work on a new MBA site which you are looking at right now and I decided, by August, to just hold back a bit from the blogging and wait until the new site was up.

The plan is to blog primarily on articles or blog posts I read that inform my thinking about the MBA, to share my thinking on MBA initiatives that are in development, to report on public appearances that I make as President of the MBA, members that I meet up with in my travels and the occasional bit of personal news.