But before he left, he posted a great blog [included especially for Adam Tinworth] about the confusion surrounding journaling and bloggism.
Martin was so piqued by a recent tweet from Media Bistro asking: "Are bloggers journalists?" that he was compelled to try to find out the first online reference to the great question of our age:
"The earliest explicit mention of the question I have been able to unearth via Google though is from 11th April 2002.
"On David F. Gallagher’s blog of pictures of New York City, he posted a link to an article entitled “Are bloggers journalists?” with the URL microcontentnews.com/articles/bloggingjournalism.htm.
"Sadly microcontentnews.com has disappeared, so I can’t retrieve the actual piece."
In other words, Martin notes, we've just celebrated the 10th anniversary of this particular non-conundrum.
But enough of this already.
Let's just call a blog a blog.
I'm off to find an ice cream strawberry.