A reporter for the Montgomery Advertiser called me the other day while working on a story trying to understand blogs and whether they should have the same rights as "the press" under the First Amendment. This story is the result.

Glynn Wilson traded in his newspaper editor for a high-speed modem and a blog. The former reporter for The New York Times knows he can get news to readers quicker than any paper delivery boy, and he said the communication medium is a new form of journalism. The Birmingham-area writer is one of thousands of people nationwide who have started sites on the Internet that link viewers to news and allow readers to comment on what is commonly referred to as a blog, or Web log.