Technorati, the main search engine in the so-called “blogosphere”, now tracks some 27 million sites worldwide. If the numbers are imposing, the way the media regard the humble blogger has changed, too. Britain may lag behind America in technological savvy, but even here journalists are less and less prone to sneer at the laptop-wielding newcomers. The Times now has its own posse of on-line scribblers, and only last week the respected BBC foreign correspondent Paul Reynolds told how he had learnt to treat blogs as a source of information on the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the furore over cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper. As he observed: “The mainstream media (MSM in the jargon) has to sit up and take notice and develop some policies to meet this challenge.”
Too bad Clive didn't give me credit for that like Paul did.
Clive ends with this...
For some reason, the habit still hasn’t fully taken root on this side of the pond. Which means that, unless we rise to the challenge, the stereotypes will only get worse. Pardon my franglais, but the time has come to say “Aux keyboards, citoyens!”
Yes, and on the other side of the pond they're already vlogging and podcasting.
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