WSJ's Lee Gomes on blogs
Thanks to Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine for posting this (as a subscription is required to read Wall St. Journal content online). I listen to the WSJ on Audible.com every morning and was delighted to hear that Gomes, whose "Portals" column is a fixture every Monday morning, is a voracious blog consumer (at least in his private life).
BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis
These blogs are becoming an alternative-news universe, giving everyone with a PC and a Web connection access to the sorts of gossip that was once available only to reporters on the press bus. At a site like Feedster, which is to blogs what Google is to Web sites, you can track the rumor du jour. And what Napster did for MP3s, blogs are doing for news -- or, at least for rumors. They are eliminating the gatekeepers and all barriers to entry....
I am, in my private life, a voracious reader of these things, as are most of my friends, reporters included.