Chris Mooney discusses the idea. But who’s the boss in most cases? Hard to tell. The good news is: our traffic and influence seem to be growing, hence the interest in monetizing all this:
Tellingly, both The Huffington Post and Daily Kos were slightly ahead of The Economist’s site–and considerably ahead of The New Yorker’s. Even more tellingly, on Technorati’s list of the hundred most-linked information sources, twenty-two were blogs.