I can’t tell you how cool it is to see journalists writing about the blogosphere, even the ones who don’t “get” it. Still relatively new, blogging is something I enjoy doing and writing about. My article on the Rathergate bloggers and their contributions is only the beginning of the sort of writing I want to do. I will be contacting the Easongate bloggers pretty soon, particularly those who haven’t received a lot of attention.
During events like Easongate, smaller and medium blogs don’t get the attention they deserve from mainstream media. I include myself in this category, but I was pleased to be contacted by a reporter from the Wall Street Journal yesterday about the Eason Jordan scandal. I was stunned, actually. The reporter was a woman, so my guess is that she was looking for something other than the usual white males. The story is tentative, but I’ll let you know if/when it comes out.
I volunteer to take up the slack and cover the smaller bloggers. The high-profile ones don’t have anything to worry about, so I’ll let mainstream media handle them. I also want to be the go-to blogger when a reporter wants to know who the smaller bloggers are and provide a sort of Who’s Who in the blogosphere in general.
The Conservative Political Action Conference is this week (already?), and I’m just as excited to meet and blog about the bloggers as I am the speakers. I hope to interview several speakers, but I also have a few bloggers in mind, too.
Many bloggers don’t like to blog about blogging. They’d rather cover the issues of the day or something else they find interesting. I tried to carry on the I-don’t-like-blogging-about-blogging charade for a while, but I can’t suppress it. 
So in addition to blogging about politics and faith, I will blog and write about bloggers. I appreciate the news tips you send me, but I also want “blog tips.” For instance, who do you think is an underrated blogger? Who is overrated?
Has your favorite blogger disappeared with no explanation? Is he/she suddenly more prolific? What ignited the fire or aroused the passion?
Some bloggers specialize and become experts in a particular subject area(s). What are some of the most interesting and/or unusual blog niches in the blogosphere?
Addendum: I will be developing an article based on the responses I received to this post.
Update (8:51 p.m.): Do know a blogger named Doc Rampage? I “met” Doc back when I first started blogging over at Blogger. It’s funny how November 2003 seems so long ago. Go check out Doc’s site, and tell him I sent you. 
