Warblogging's the word (1)
Is it a slow Saturday for news or is "warblogging" the big media story of the moment? First example, today's Financial Times, which gives prominent play in print and web to the phenomenon. In print, where space is less of a problem, the story is headed "Round the clock, 'bloggers' are meeting global need". On the paper's site, the story is titled "Weblogs meet a global need".
Sean-Paul Kelly's The Agonist gets first mention and other sites referred to in Peter Thai Larsen's article include, the Command Post, and Sgt Stryker. Money quote:
"If the last Gulf war was a triumph for live television, the current conflict belongs to the web. For the first time since the internet was widely adopted in the late 1990s, its power is being concentrated on an international war. The result is almost impossible to catalogue; tens or even hundreds of thousands of weblogs — known as blogs — have been established or adapted to chronicle or comment upon the conflict. An audience of hundreds of millions surfs between them."
An audience of millions cannot be ignored so big media is muscling in. Larsen notes"
"Even media organisations are getting in on the act in an effort to make the best use of original reporting. The BBC has started posting web updates from its war correspondents. The Financial Times and UK newspaper The Guardian have done the same."
