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Article Title: The Blogosphere's Smaller Stars

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"The thing about history, though, is that the efforts of minor players often go unnoticed. During the scandal, high-trafficked bloggers were interviewed on radio and television and mentioned in countless news articles. Two appeared on the cover of Time magazine. But smaller, lesser-known, and lower-trafficked blogs that didn’t get press coverage served a valuable function during Rathergate. By linking to well-known blogs, articles, documents, and one another, they made worthy contributions. A few even conducted their own independent, journalistic-style investigations (often scooping the professionals).................

.................The effect bloggers have had on traditional journalism as they become fact-checkers, disseminators of information, and “citizen journalists” is still in flux. But the paradigm has clearly shifted in determining what is news and who is qualified to cover it, and smaller bloggers are playing an important role. Tom Maguire, host of the blog Just One Minute, also frequently linked to by Instapundit, says that smaller bloggers can do research to uncover overlooked angles and connections.

Patterico believes smaller bloggers can be noticed. Although larger ones get the media coverage, smaller bloggers can still break stories. “[I]f your message is unique, there is still a good chance it will get attention.”
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Linked to the above story, after reading a rant from this Law-li-pop,

Who was linked to, by this guy who owns swimming Melons.

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A few days earlier, a good friend emailed me this important article about blogs.

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The paradigms are shifting...
The ground is shaking....
Dialectics, Dichotomies...will detonate.
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But more than anything, we are humble, sub-servient citizens who will do our utmost best to preserve social stability. No joke! I wanna see those smiles on my grandma's face. Not a worried frown.

posted by audaciousjoy @ 1:37 AM