August 3, 2002

Economist Catches On to Blogs

Christian Crumlish

Chaord Everywhere I Look caught this citation in the Economist (every thinking liberal's favorite noninsane conservative news voice). Funny that they thought bOing bOing was a tech blog, though. Daryl questions the characterization of blogs as the "anti-newspaper":

I disagree. I think blogs are the anti-advertisement. Ads are always trying to portray the good things about something (except political attack ads) but with blogs we can show the underbelly of things too.
Posted by xian at August 3, 2002 6:52 PM
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