Some newspaper writers use a blog as a launching point for their opinions on a wide variety of topics, including the team they cover. We’ll mostly stick to the Padres and baseball, and keep most of the commentary as fact-driven as possible. The other thing we’re figuring out is, how often should we blog? Blogging takes away from our reporting. It’s possible to serve both masters, but that’s an evolving process for us.

From where I sit (not my mother’s basement in Albuquerque, for those who might be wondering), the marriage of traditional reporting and blogging is a win-win proposition. Once you get past the labels, we’re all trying to achieve the same goals, right?

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• Arrived in Vegas Wednesday evening. Nice, easy 5-hour drive.
• Dinner and drinks with fellow b5ers. I’ll name drop when I get home. For now, I’ll just say it was cool to meet in person folks I’ve been working with for more than a year. Also, I’m a sucker for sushi and beer.
• Three sports track sessions on Thursday. Good discussion on the differences between sports blogging and sports journalism, how to build an audience; good networking. Again, namedropping can wait, but you’ve heard of them.
• Morning session on Friday talked about whether bloggers need access to players, teams, etc., and if so, how to go about getting said access.

This afternoon, we’ll look at where sports blogging is headed. The speakers have been outstanding thus far, and I’m looking forward to hearing their thoughts on our future.

Oh yeah, and then Mark Cuban will deliver the closing keynote. Cool, huh?

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