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:SETI?

[tzot]

No, SIWI (Search for Intra-Web Intelligence).

Re:SETI? Parent is Slashdot Goof

[Nom du Keyboard]

The parent is a Slashdot goof. This was supposed to post under the next article about a new statistical technique for finding information among a large flood of data. Instead Slashdot first invoked the 20 second you-type-too-fast rule, then put it here.

Sorry, and I had to be modded down for their problem [sigh].