Yahoo adds blogs to news
p2p news / p2pnet:- It’s official. Blogs are slowly taking over the role of information providers, replacing the corporate media outlets which until the Net came along, were our only source of information.
Google recently fired up a blog search function (ad-free, for the moment), and yesterday, Yahoo did the same in an, “experiment that figures to test the public’s appetite for information from alternative sources”.
A keyword search for online news will include a, "list of relevant Web logs, or ‘blogs,’ displayed in a box to the right of the results collected from mainstream journalism,” says the Association Press, going on:
“Yahoo’s inclusion of blogs in its news section represents another validation for a growing group of people that are bypassing newspapers, magazines and broadcast outlets to report and comment on topical events.
“Although many top bloggers lack formal journalism training, it hasn’t stopped them from building loyal readerships or breaking news that the mainstream media either missed or ignored.”
And that’s why the RIAA, MPAA and all the other AAs owned by the entertainment and software cartels are steadily losing their grim and bloody battle to force us into a cage.
Information, not money, has always been the principal currency.
And in the 21st century we, and not them, control the flow of information.
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See:-
fired up – Google Blog Search arrives, September 15, 2005
Association Press – Yahoo Adds Blogs to Its News Section, October 11, 2005
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