The bad things about blogging are...
A reporter with Editor & Publisher interviewed me yesterday about blogging. His thesis was unclear to me; it's not as if blogging newspaper editors are new. But he did ask me one question that stopped me. He had asked about the benefits of blogging, and I recited them -- the conversation, transparency, the learning -- you know.
Then he asked about the negatives.
Silence as I tried to think of some. Hmmm. It takes time, but that just means I change how I work. That's actually a positive. People bark at me, but that's not new to blogging. Responding to their concerns probably is, but again that's a positive. Readers correct my errors and the paper's, which is embarrassing but opening up another way to "get it right" is a benefit.
"Negatives? I can't think of any negatives," I said finally.
I probably wasn't a very good interview.
