Tim O’Reilly recently published this post on his Radar blog that talks about the convergence of programming and journalism into new, hybrid professions.

I’ve thought about the possibilities here for a while, since web sites started moving from a brochure oriented framework to a publishing oriented one back in the early 2000s.

I think there’s great potential for advancement of both journalism and programming as a result of this convergence. Programmers get to better express themselves and improve their communication skills. It’s amazing how much this has already happened since programmers started keeping their own blogs.

Journalists find new and interesting ways to provoke their readers as information can be merged, mashed, and combined in ways previously not possible without prohibitive costs.

Trained as a journalist with the soul of a programmer, I think I owe it to myself to research this area in more detail to determine what opportunities are available.