bedeviled mojo slop

Random thoughts here on a Tuesday afternoon, but I was struck by the following reference to professional journalists (my emphasis).

My endless infomercial bit has gotten a lot of pick-up, the latest being Howard Kurtz's column in the Washington Post. He even included the sarcastic swipe at pro-jos. "Now would be a great opportunity for some of the real reporting the pros are so famous for." Good work.

I thought to myself, I'm a flow journalist. I'm a flow-jo. I like this characterization only in that it doesn't try to differentiate or make assumptions about amateur (or citizen) vs. professional journalists. If there is a distinction there, both camps can refer to themselves as flow-jos.

The web makes this explicit through the links created between pages. Weblogs allow for real-time updating of that flow of information through constructs like comments and trackbacks and pingbacks. Syndication through RSS or Atom or another format allows that information to flow out to individuals or other systems. My aggregator is my digital local paper that I've constructed. Higher level services like Technorati and PubSub help me to manage the information flow to find and discover other sources of information. They're my digital CNNs.

There's obviously no mental breakthroughs here, but if I'm ever asked whether or not I consider myself a journalist, I've got an answer.

Yes. I'm a flow-jo.