I don't care what mainstream media says about bloggers . . . .

Sometimes they pull off some pretty neat stuff, and the intel's good enough to let us journalism-biz guys and gals spread the word even faster.

If I gave more details, I'd endanger my balance between my day job and this, but let's say that all the hoopla about citizen journalism and camera cell phones isn't all hype.

And when you get cited back in the blog (even as being a few days late), people get to see what we're still best at: getting an in-depth, reliable, multifaceted story.