“[T]he weblog phenomenon does not represent anything fundamentally new in the news media: The New York Times has been publishing individual points of view on the OP ED page for 100 years.” – Martin Niesenholtz of nytimes.com. You think the Times op-ed page would publish most of what’s being written on blogs? Ahem. Niesenholtz is betting Dave Winer $2000 on the proposition that “[i]n a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site.” Check out the discussion. By the way, I think an opinion site that actually gets writers to put their money where their mouth is makes a lot of sense. Drama + hackery = readable journalism.
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