Hammersley is Dangerous

...seriously dangerous. Even aside from his serious pictureTaking talent, Hammersley's new site gives a new meaning to the concept blog. It is the best-integrated visual/textual experience in that thing called the Blogoshere that I have seen. Given the starved visual/textual interplay of this venue, such an endorsement might take for faint praise. But that's as may be.

Apparently Hammersley has also been cooking up some page designs for one of the seriously dangerous news organs, Guardian Unlimited. Now in this time when the revolution du blog is under attack while being praised with equal vehemence -- like the Beatles in 1964 -- [and I will tell you, as an experienced blogger that most blogs utterly suck], often within the same organ, the Guardian's print edition and website together are my yin & yang of truth & football reportage...each medium providing a lighter shade of pale on this dog-eat-dog world.

As for blogging, it will not go away but, likewise, it will probably not kill any journalists soon. That is, any journalists who are any good. And the old-school bricks&mortar, paper&ink venues that treat their online media more like a conversation -- visual, textual, whatever -- are going to reap rewards.

And I'm glad Hammersley is here to show the way.