You know, I figured this was how they would eventually start handling it. When blogs were a controversial novelty (in their eyes, anyway), they'd attribute material to them. But now that it's dawned on them that blogs are actually way out there ahead of the pack, it's "blog? What's a 'blog'?"

See no reporting, hear no reporting!

Drudge had the Burkett Online Journal thing on the night the Kinko's deal broke, a day before the Captain had it. I read it that night but was in a hurry to read everything coming in about Kinko's, so I missed the "reassmbled" thing. Captain deserves credit for that, certainly, but the Burkett rant was out there a day before. Granted, I think Drudge missed the signifigance of it too, because he did not give it a headline - it was a sidebar item which I nearly skipped.

I still remember when Bill O'Reilly was listening to somebody spell out the URL for Little Green Footballs. The look on his face was priceless.

Little green what?

The media likes they're reporting sanitized and politically correct, something the blogosphere is not. Reporters may be reading blogs for tips, but they're not going to give many attributions.

Hey thanks for the clarification and the link, Ace. I don't care what they say about you - I think you're a standup dude.

I think you're a standup dude.

He sure is. I'm the one who taught him how to blockquote.

I'm so proud...

;-)

Actually, that's very helpful.

It's just sort of a pain in the ass to write 'blockquote.'

But it is definitely easier to read.

I guess all that italics on my site made me look like a half-a-maniac.

Well, it was definetly hard to read anyway. All the text matched up along the margins making it hard to discern where the quoting stopped and the commentary began.

ITs still sort of hard to tell where the post stops and the comments begin, but that Paypal button helps.

I don't know, I'm just picky like that.

Yeah I noticed how quickly they stopped talking about blogs or siting specifics. My jaw dropped as I saw one story about how first it started on the Internet and then how the regular media worked even harder on the story.

Feh. Whistling past the graveyard.