WebLog article Of The Day by Steven Johnson. But the journalistic form itself won't be all that earth-shattering. I disagree with this more and more. The recent Pim Fortuyn situation has brought focus to the uncorrected sloppiness of traditional media - I think the real issue is about thinking that any one source can tell you anything trustworthy about anything. I think people will get more and more of their "news" online simply because of the possibility of a broader and more accurate view.

• Scott Rosenberg gets closer. The rise of blogs does not equal the death of professional journalism. The media world is not a Zero Sum Game. Increasingly, in fact, the Internet is turning it into a symbiotic Eco System -- in which the different parts feed off one another and the whole thing grows.

But some of his BlogWeb ideas aren't bad. *I don't always want to know what über-blogger Jason Kottke happens to be thinking about this morning - I want to know what he thinks about the page I'm currently reading, or the paragraph I just wrote.* I agree: BlogDex and DayPop have to hold non-current data. Perhaps this can be made more scalable (if that's an issue) by only saving the old links information (RDF?), and not the words themselves! I also agree that being to filter such views based on a list of "favorites" is key.

• But suggesting standardized tags for just five or six additional elements (Semantic Web alert) is crazy. And I bet some decent text processing would achieve most of the value. This will eventually happen through the next generation of tools, whether desktop-based (e.g. Radio Userland, Reptile) or server-based (BlogDex).

re: "eventually happen through the next generation of tools": I've been waiting for this about ten years, and i'm still browsing the options (as they continue to evolve). I'd like [File Maker] and Radio Userland much more if they were GPL; [Wiki Wiki] imho is critical. I'm still agnostic on "weblogs". --John Abbe

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