Plenty print journalists who maintain weblogs must be tempted to scoop themselves by blogging something before writing about it for their paper. There's a good example of the conundrum in today's Sunday Times, in Danny O'Brien's Virtual Life column.
Those of us who read Danny's weblog as well as his (excellent) column would certainly recognise the subject matter for his piece in the Sunday Times today - it was covered in his blog a few weeks ago. See for yourself - here is this week's column (free registration required), and here are the two blog entries (1) and (2) from last month.
It's an interesting problem for those of us who write for a living, but also maintain weblogs that are much better vehicles for rapid fire, instant publishing. What should go where? Should we assume that our weblog's audience is different from our printed readership? Or should the "good stuff" be saved for first use in one particular medium? I know, as a print editor, what I'd want the answer to be - but it's easy to see the temptation for writers as well.
