Bloggers the Tech World's New Elite? 224
Carl Bialik writes "Wall Street Journal tech columnist Lee Gomes says that the top tech blogs 'aren't part of some proletarian information revolution, but instead have become the tech world's new elite. Reporters for the big mainstream newspapers and magazines, long accustomed to fawning treatment at corporate events, now show up and find that the best seats often go to the A-list bloggers. And living at the front of the velvet rope line means the big bloggers are frequently pitched and wooed. In fact, with the influence peddling universe in this state of flux, it's not uncommon for mainstream reporters, including the occasional technology columnist, to lobby bloggers to include links to their print articles.'"
Slow news day (Score:2, Funny)
If you define 'Elite' as... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Please stop using that word (Score:1, Funny)
Do we know who coined that word? And if so, do we know where he lives? Because I have a great helping of beat-down reserved for the person responsible for it.
Re:No. Next question. (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, but wait until I have Linux running on my toaster! Maybe I should blog about it...
Re:The Honeymoon Is Over (Score:3, Funny)
OK, we'll be needing a new word for "blog spam". The obvious candidates are blam and splog (or spog). I'll vote for blam! (with the exclamation point). I should register this as a trademark...
Re:Bloggers the Tech World's New Elite? (Score:3, Funny)
This journalist is in awe of other supposed journalists' (blogger's) new toy, then procedes to overstate the issue.
In other news, according to Cookie Monster, the cookie has been declared "best food ever." When pressed on which particular cookie was superior he declined any further comment.
Did you accidently space in the wrong place? (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like you typed "the masses"; are you sure you didn't mean to put the space *after* the 'm' instead of before it?
-- Terry
Re:Blogs (Score:4, Funny)
Really? Excellent! That's good to hear.
They'll find this very useful:
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Re:No. Next question. (Score:5, Funny)
I hope you do better then I did, I used a cd-writer and an industrial laser, but it didn't work out well: * Runs to toaster, inserts bread slices, runs back to desktop * Ok, I can burn custom tux images on my bread, but next time I wouldn't use a single speed writer anymore.
Re:Bloggers the Tech World's New Elite? (Score:4, Funny)