I operate about five blogs with plans to expand to fifty or so in the next year. I also write a column in the National Post. Ironically, it is only the latter that seems to qualify me as being a journalist - until last week that is. The California Supreme Court ruled against Apple in its claim that bloggers do not have the same rights to protect their sources as traditional journalists do.

Blogs are changing the way we acquire information. Like all new mediums it will generate its rules and standards with time and use. Rulings like this are an inevitable part of blogs becoming part of the mainstream.