One of Ours

...A year ago, blogs were still pretty much an underground fad...In the last year blog readership has grown from 4 percent to 11 percent of U.S. Internet users, or 33 million people...

...In the April Vanity Fair, writer James Wolcott burbles that blogs are "the best thing to hit journalism since the rise of the political pamphlet."

The Columbia School of Journalism now tracks political blogs on a blog of its own...Columbia's Project for Excellence in Journalism noted that a "strong movement" toward personally owned blogs is part of an "epochal transformation" in the news business - a change comparable to the invention of the telegraph or television.