news blogging
Steve Outing discusses a blogger's attempt to get his news from blogs, and only blogs, for a week. Outing writes:
What, if anything, can we take away from Rubel's blog-only diet experiment? Probably that blogs remain in their infancy, despite the wave of press they've received in the last year. They provide a reasonable, but far from perfect, entry point into the news space, better at offering commentary and starting conversations than serving a current-events-indicator role.
Blogs are in their infancy? Perhaps as a conduit for the latest news--but that's not what blogs are for. This is like saying phones are in their infancy because we can't use them to boil water.
Also at Poynter.org: "Labor Pains" by Chip Scanlan.
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.