Links for today on blogging

• Joanna Geary, now of The Times, on why she started blogging and what she learnt from it: "Although, I didn’t really know what I was doing with the thing, with hindsight I can see from the second post on I started exploring the idea of increasing audience interaction."

• Former Iranian President, Mohamad Khatami, wants to see Mir Hussein Mousavi as Iranian president. Khatami thought it would be a good idea to answers questions from Iran's bloggers. According to Global Voices, he "loves blogs". But then slamming blogs just prior to fielding questions from their authors probably wouldn't be the way forward.
  

• The Reuters Institute had a roundtable discussion on blogging at some point recently. It produced some global perspectives on the impact of blogging on journalism in various countries.