My first blog

Hi Everyone! This is my first blog. In this first blog I am going to talk about citizen journalism. You may be wondering what citizen journalism exactly is. Well, it's precicely what I am doing right now...bloging and posting my ideas on what I believe the world should get to know a little bit more about in a way most journalists do. I say that this is a good thing. Amateurs get to write and talk about about anything they love to do, and others that share their same passion can respond.
Blogging is something new to me. This really is my very first blog and I am learning a lot about it. "Amateur Hour" by Nicholas Lemann, is an article written for The New Yorker. He writes about citizen journalism and explains this fairly new concept of blogs, blogging, and the internet as a gateway for amateur to be "journalists" for the world. He informs that there are about 12 million bloggers in the United States. This means that an increase in this profession has occured. This will create more creative ways to speak our minds about not only what we love but about serious issues and political issues. This is good because we will now have everyone's view on these subjects. How personal will newspaper articles become and how will their information compete with these new bloggers? My question is: Where will this take the profession of journalism next?