Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.