HBO Blogosphere — 6.10.09

I never held to the dream, as shown in David Horsey’s cartoon (see link), of making gunny sacks full of money writing for Community Comment. Not hardly in an age when real journalists, those who have made their living writing each day, are standing out on the street peering in the windows of America’s newsrooms on unemployment. Not when bastions of literacy such as The Rocky Mountain News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and so many others have already closed their doors for good, leaving some of the best writers in America looking for work/ David Laird , Community Comment. More here .

• Writing as a reflection of the author /Dogwalk Musings
• List: Things I want to do /Midnight Marauder
• Ink me, baby, one more time /Life’s A Freak Show
• Yard sale or bust /Nuts & Nonsense
• Duties of the housewife /Mrs. Mac Energetic (More below)

Question (from Community Comment): Writing an opinion is hardly the same as writing news journalism, and thus, writing a Blog is not the same as being a journalist. Agree or disagree?

• Bayview activities for June ; and: Race results for first weekend /Bay Views
• Magazine procrastinator /Simple Mind
• 3BT: Blueberry Doughy, Cleaned and Polished, Photo Surprises /Kellogg Bloggin’
• An Ode to Iris /Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• How to save a life /Notes On A Napkin
• Tidbits /Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts
• Summer schedule /Silver Valley Stories
• Summer shooting /Slight Detour
• Dangerous Keepsakes /Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Tuesday, June 9): 7914/4684