Bloggers the Tech World's New Elite?

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.'"

Comments

Re:The fallacy of blogosphere egalitarianism

[Kafka_Canada]

Let me guess, your proposed solution to this "problem" is to legislate or otherwise force people to be equal, right? Funny........ but stupid.

By the way, you should be shot to death for calling Rob Malda part of the "cultural elite" (no matter what the context).

Re:If you define 'Elite' as...

[E8086]

so they "claim" to be "31it3 810g3rZ" but can they hack a Gibson? No, but they can complain about it. I prefer to call them WOGS in the tradition, if you can call it one, of SPAM SPiced hAM -> WOG Web lOG, there's a lot of them and not many people like them.

Re:The fallacy of blogosphere egalitarianism

[Kafka_Canada]

Go fuck yourself