Howard Sherman on the issue of Josh's blog

Nuggets by Howard Sherman

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I understand that if someone is paying the bills, you owe them your best work first. That's what freelance contracts are for. But there's a larger point. Kucera should have been writing for a Time.com blog but there isn't one (at least not that I could find). Big media organizations should embrace Weblogs (a growing number are starting to) as the next generation of online publishing tools and just one more way of communicating with their readers.

Now that freelance writers have an outlet to reach large, international audiences without any help from media companies, some media managers are getting nervous and overreacting. That's silly. They have more to fear from trying to squelch blogs than from embracing them.