More are becoming South Dakota bloggers. I would like to welcome to the Dakota Blog Alliance John Walker from Colman South Dakota. He has started the web site RadioActive Chief.
Here is more on the rise of bloggers:
Some media observers now contend the "Blogosphere" is rapidly replacing CBS and the rest of the mainstream media. Even New York Times best-selling author Hugh Hewitt calls his latest book, "Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That is Changing Your World."
Sheffield joined two other pioneers of the new reformation at the Heritage Foundation, Friday, to address the theme: "Rather is Retiring: Is the Blogosphere the New Media Establishment?"
Matthew Sheffield (RatherBiased), Paul Mirengoff (Powerline) and Kevin Aylward (Wizbangblog) all gathered with host Mark Tapscott, director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Media and Public Policy, for a panel discussion on blogging and the media.
Aylward's key point was that the bloggers have indeed arrived - and with an impact that has already been telling to the main line media:
"One of the items I've been working on for my portion of the presentation is a look at blogs versus traditional media web sites. Using John Hawkins rankings of The Top 125 Political Sites on the net as a base, I added the Web sites of selected newspapers to the ratings to see how the top trafficked blogs stack up.
Blogs Outstripping Some Newspapers
"You'll note that several blogs rank higher than mid-size daily newspapers and some are pushing the sites of papers in the top 50 (by daily circulation). The data suggest that the question isn't "When will blogs arrive?" but rather "Blogs HAVE arrived, what now?"
Mirengoff answered that rhetorical question by suggesting: "In 2004, the earth moved…" [referring to the Rathergate phenomenon]
Mirengoff further suggested that the main stream media may be now finding it necessary to join and compete with "other voices" in the media, "loosing control of the agenda" that it had dictated over so many years.
The blogger also opined that although the main stream media still has the obvious advantages of a huge audience and armies of fact-checkers, it also suffers from the twin liabilities of "arrogance" and often "cluelessness."
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