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The ABC trope that bloggers are people of the year has caught the attention of more than a few good bloggers, and they appreciate thge treatment and the attention.  It’s my contention that it’s long past time for those of us who - (ugh) - "blog" - get over ourselves and get on with life.  I submit that journalists are better at what they do to the extent that they are NOT the story.  One good reason is that they don’t waste bandwidth on navel gazing.  While there are a lot of students, teachers, and critics of blogcraft, most of us are simple writers.  Some of us write fiction.  Some comedy.  Some journalism.  The web provides media and context, but it no more provides identification than the battered fedora and the portable Underwood.  Writers is writers.  Web crafters add dimension through better and broader control over content and layout than the average portable Underwood gives you.