Christopher Allbritton of Back to Iraq talks to OJR about a subject very close to my heart -- how to reconcile the world of blogging with that of "mainstream" journalism.

Christopher -- who's currently in Iraq for Time and the New York Daily News -- echoes a sad truth I discovered a long time ago.

Unlike crime, blogging doesn't pay.

"You can't as yet make a career out of blogging," he says. "Blogging might have paid the bills for one moment of glory, but it's a lot harder to make it pay for your whole career."

His current employers also seem as relaxed as mine about his blog -- a sign, perhaps, that Big Media is at last developing some understanding of their hacks' pet projects.