Yeah i know it's not much of a posting but i just wanted share this link, i thought it made for some interesting reading on blogs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs
If you checked out the link you could say that the Huffington Post blog exemplifies the turn around in traditional media toward the Web as a platform. Seeing it's (the Web's) popularity as just another means to reach the masses. This could kind off make Rebecca Bloods ideal of Weblogs as an antidote for the crippling effects of a media saturated culture in the year 2000 seem like just a wistful hope for the integrity of the blogs future.
Of course there are two sides to every story and the multitude of independant decentralised blogs running on individual domains and journaling everything from biscuit making to views on world politics speaks multitudes about the ability of blogs to enable the traditionally passive public (the little guy) to contribute to the media via the Web, to voice a unique and independant point of view. And according to Technorati (2008) there were about 12.8 million blogs and that excludes the the 72 million Chinese blogs, so that's a lot of little guys with a lot of stuff to say about stuff.
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