| Web content for newspapers online has been | | | | vetting the sources, so accuracy and truthfulness |
| limited to | | | | is |
| repeating what paid staff writes for the print | | | | maintained and the blog can be trusted. It's an |
| editions of | | | | interesting |
| their papers or material coming from one or | | | | experiment and may be the route to bloggers |
| another of the wire services | | | | earning a living |
| to which the parent organization subscribes.We're | | | | from their blogs by gaining an audience they |
| all familiar with seeing Associated Press or | | | | previously had |
| Reuters | | | | little access to - major newspaper web site |
| stories running in our local paper and posted | | | | visitors.Since unknown bloggers appear to need |
| online at | | | | the media in order to |
| various news organizations. Imagine a news wire | | | | spread the word (becoming well known in the |
| service for blogs which could | | | | process) and |
| syndicate your blog to appear on online news | | | | newspaper web sites appear to want blogs |
| sites. A new service called | | | | associated with |
| BlogBurst has emerged to help bring blogging and | | | | their site, BlogBurst is filling that need. Since a |
| news | | | | lack of income |
| together on the web sites of major media. | | | | is what haunts many bloggers hoping to earn |
| makes the writings of a select group of bloggers | | | | from their |
| available to news organizations by aggregating | | | | commentary, BlogBurst will allow those bloggers |
| the musings of | | | | to both reach |
| selected blog writers into a feed made available | | | | an audience and capitalize on their own traffic via |
| to major | | | | their own |
| papers. The news organizations can apparently | | | | advertising, whether that is Google Adsense, |
| choose from | | | | Blogads, or some |
| among the topic areas and bloggers offered via | | | | other agreement with individual advertisers.News |
| the BlogBurst | | | | sites have launched blogs written by volunteers, |
| feed.Some bloggers have launched news | | | | some |
| commentary blogs with groups | | | | have offered staff journalists a blog, others have |
| of bloggers commenting on news. There already | | | | tried |
| exist several | | | | allowing "Comments" from readers. But |
| attempts to popularize what has become known | | | | volunteers appear |
| as "Citizen | | | | unreliable, staffers have little incentive to blog |
| Journalism" by such notable groups as "We the | | | | without |
| Media and Dan | | | | pay and comment sections are subject to abuse |
| Gillmore's Bayosphere which seems to have been | | | | by comment |
| taken over by | | | | spam. ZDNet is currently offering bloggers in |
| BackFence. Relevant links below: | | | | popular |
| | | | technology topic areas and is apparently providing |
| | | | payment |
| is often lacking for bloggers who provide | | | | from advertising revenue generated by those |
| commentary on the news is an | | | | blogs. is taking an interesting approach by offering |
| audience. Those experiments mentioned above | | | | online news organizations filtered and verified |
| have been available on small sites, | | | | news |
| which are otherwise unknown to the world. | | | | commentary from bloggers. Presumably, this |
| Struggling to gain readers is the bane of | | | | content will be |
| blogging, since people can't read what they don't | | | | available directly on the news sites, such as the |
| know exists.Some well known bloggers have | | | | Washington Post, Gannet News sites, San |
| found their audience through | | | | Francisco |
| writing compelling content and being discovered | | | | Chronicle and Houston Chronicle news |
| by major | | | | sites.BlogBurst is reviewing proposed blogs |
| media when they break their own news stories. | | | | currently and will |
| Others gain | | | | announce the engagement in a live trial with |
| that audience through connections or through | | | | major news sites |
| fame, but most | | | | in May. Will the love of blogs by major media |
| bloggers toil away daily for the pure love of a | | | | result in a |
| topic while | | | | spring wedding? BlogBurst appears to be offering |
| gathering small and loyal followings.BlogBurst | | | | to serve as |
| promises to make web content from the | | | | minister to a marriage made in heaven. Stay |
| blogosphere | | | | tuned, to see |
| discoverable by the media by limiting the | | | | if this will be a long lasting marriage. |
| availability and | | | | |