In the words of Dave Winer: “Think that all innovation must come in the form of applications of search and you’ll be left in the dust.”

My nomination for a corollary to Dave’s rule: Think that all innovation must come from within a 20 minute drive of Sand Hill Road, and you’ll be left in the dust.”

Adam Kleinheider, who is employed by Nashville’s ABC affiliate, WKRN, to maintain the TV station’s excellent political weblog, Volunteer Voters, recounts a phone exchange he had yesterday with a “journalist” who was helpful to Adam until he/she realized he was a “blogger.” The “journalist” didn’t seem to care even that Adam was on the news staff of a network-affiliate TV station (translation: “main stream media”) and was sitting in the middle of a newsroom. Because Adam’s reporting and analysis is distributed in a weblog format, the “journalist” claimed Adam had “misrepresented” himself as a real journalist — and called the station’s news director to protest.

Says Adam, “I was not privy to that convo but I am made to understand that The Journalist ended the call extremely unsatisfied.”

My continued kudos to WKRN.

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