Blogs are a surefire way to deliver valuable information & rally folks to action… It’s an interesting thing, the different formats calling for different “voices” … I also get that journalists can’t let “ keepin’ an eye on the prize” distract from their reporting mission… Fingers crossed that awards jurists fully appreciate it all.

DM- Anybody ever sends you a D- note? Let us know! We’ll handle it! You do such a phenomenal job of engaging us & inching us towards even brighter possibilities as a community. You’re richly deserving of every blogging kudo that comes your way!

I agree with DM. He is writing in a manner appropriate to the medium. And doing it well.

Different formats employ different levels of decorum and rhetoric. We speak in a conversational tone on blogs and in comments BECAUSE we are conversing. If I wrote as if I was crafting a term paper, no one would reply – unless they felt compelled to grade my work! (D- See me after class) It was written on a blog, not in an article. Not sure what the problem was.