] Harvard University has given the former software
] executive a fellowship at its Berkman Center for the
] Internet and Society, part of Harvard Law School, in
] order to head up the new Blogs at Harvard Initiative.
] Winer, who studied math at Tulane University before
] collecting his master's degree in computer science from
] the University of Wisconsin, will instruct Harvard
] students and faculty in the art of posting daily
] dispatches to the Web.
]
] Before becoming blogging guru to the academic elite,
] Winer founded and was chief executive of Millbrae,
] Calif.-based UserLand Software, which specializes in
] content-publishing tools and services. He wrote or
] contributed to a number of relevant specifications,
] including SOAP, XML-RPC, RSS and OPML. He is perhaps best
] known for launching Scripting News, one of the Internet's
] longest-running Web logs

] The typical news article consists of quotes from
] interviews and a little bit of connective stuff and some
] facts, or whatever. Mostly it's quotes from people. If I
] can get the quotes with no middleman in between--what
] exactly did CNN add to all the pictures? Maybe they
] earned their salaries a little bit, but Web logs have
] become journalism, and it's much richer. Journalism is a
] high calling, but it's really no more than points of view
] on what's taking place. I think the pros are going to use
] this tech, and they are doing it more and more.

Winer actualy says this in a media interview. Being resented by the media is not really a good place to be, in general. Of course, there is that quote on the front of this web site. :)