I’m wondering if someday our journalism schools will teach event blogging. Probably not until they hire professors who can do it themselves? I noticed that Andy Vance over at Buckeye Ag Radio Network is making the media transition it takes to do more than just one kind of reporting. He’s been blogging the Ohio FFA Convention.

I was talking to some organizational marcom people last night who seemed fascinated by what I’m doing here at the Clean Cities Congress. They actually wondered if I sleep or not and the answer is “sometimes.” But to cover an event using the full capabilities of a blog I think you’ve got to be a photographer, videographer, editor, broadcaster and web developer all rolled into one. This is why the traditional definitions of media just don’t cut it anymore.

As Andy is proving, a traditional farm broadcaster is now becoming an online editor. So Andy, it’s time to join AAEA in addition to NAFB. I wonder what the merger of those two organizations will be called? The National Association of Agricultural Editors of Various Types (NAAEVT)?