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.'"
Re:If you define 'Elite' as... (Score:2, Informative)
Wow, a completely ignorant comment from someone that didn't RTFA and hasn't been keeping up w/the rapid changes taking place in the "industry".
Actually, recently, those that author some of the largest blogs are starting to do it as their full time job (we've seen articles on Slashdot about that), this article mentions that people are going directly to the authors' homes to try and pitch their idea/technology to get a write up on their website, and now blog authors are getting the red carpet treatment where only traditional journalists used to.
The difference between the old media elite and the new blogging elite is that the latter gets redefined much more frequently. All it takes is attracting links from other bloggers.
Pfft. (Score:3, Informative)
Re:No. Next question. (Score:1, Informative)