Postrel on Blogs
Over at Forbes, former Reason editor Virginia Postrel calls out professional journalists who piss on blogs:
In the intense competition for attention, bloggers have found new ways to give readers value. Journalists should be asking not what we can teach them but what they can teach us.
Whole thing here.
Virginia's own blog here.
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