Shabnam Mogharabi, of the Medill News Service (MNS), called me up last week, and did a brief one-on-one regarding blogs. I'm not sure what's more gratifying, that I actually got quoted or that the article is published on the Web using software who's construction I guided. The Chicago Medill News Service uses a homegrown CMS that a series of undergraduate independent studies have built and maintained. It's not a paragon of software development, but it gets the job done.
Even better, I first saw the article in my RSS aggregator, although we're not publicizing the feeds yet. First off, they ain't quite valid yet, and second we need to make sure we don't scoop the MNS clients.
However, now that I've been mentioned in the same article as Dave Winer, it might be time to don my asbestos suit. Not blaming Dave, but he does seem to be something of a heat magnet.
Finally, Mogharabi's story has a nice roundup of Chicago area blogging activities. Lots of local flavor I didn't know about myself.
Memo to self: for vanity's sake find out what clients picked up the article