The New York Times profiles Glenn Reynolds, the grand daddy of all bloggers. Blogging since August 2001, Reynolds is in a class by himself, and has an energy level most of us just don’t have.

As the postings piled up, Mr. Reynolds’s omnivorous curiosity began to attract an increasing number of kindred spirits to his site, called InstaPundit.com Now it regularly attracts 50,000 people a day - uncommon traffic for a blog (as the journals are commonly known) not connected to a media giant.

After decades of pivoting among a dozen occupations, avocations and obsessions, Mr. Reynolds, 42, had finally found the perfect medium for his seemingly infinite interests.

I can identify on a small level to his thoughts about his blogging hobby.

“It’s gotten to the point where if I go four or five hours without posting, I get e-mails asking where I am,” he said. But it’s not just readers’ expectations that keep Mr. Reynolds blogging. He has warned many people thinking about starting a blog that it can quickly become an addiction. He seems to know from experience. “Today, I was in the gym, on the treadmill, watching CNN,” he said. “And as I was watching it, I was composing a blog entry in my head. Then I thought, ‘This really isn’t normal.’ “

Link via Jordon Cooper

Passive and Active Media
Reading connexions.net musing about ‘fast media,’ got me thinking again.
Blogging and the internet are responsive media. What about passive media?

I haven’t watched TV for a couple of weeks, so I flipped it on last night and started asking what I was being ‘fed.’ In one hour, there were at least 12 minutes of commercials (mostly about food) and even the show was selling me ‘celebrity’. I went back to a book. Here is an abstract from the American Academy of Pediatrics on media consumption has some common sense guidelines for parents.