You can count me among the 52% because in many respects I don’t see much of a difference between what I do now when writing blog posts, and what I did when I was a newspaper technology reporter with the Globe & Mail, National Post and Bloomberg News.

These days, I write stories that interest me and get to talk with all kinds of cool people. For example, I wanted to do a blog post on Prezi.com, the new presentation tool being used by a growing number of people at conferences these days. So, I sent an e-mail the CEO, and within a couple of days, I had done an interview and published a blog post.

The ability to “report” is one of the reasons why I don’t miss newspaper journalism. In many respects, I can eat my cake and have it too. With blogging as a user-friendly and popular writing vehicle, I still get to write and report about what I want, and have a modest audience.

This is a contrast to 2000 when I left journalism to co-found Blanketware, a natural language search start-up. It was really before blogging became popular so I missed writing and reporting. In many respects, it meant I had one foot in the start-up world and another still in journalism. For an entrepreneur, this is not a good place to be.

Today, I see myself as an active and engaged member of Canada’s high-tech journalism landscape. It’s not something that makes me any money directly but it’s definitely something I enjoy.