Blogger-Creep

Glenn Reynolds explains that Democratic Underground is not a Weblog to the “Paper of Record”, and asks, “Is the NYT going out of its way to try to make blogs look bad, or are their reporters just that clueless?”

I suppose it works in reverse, too. Last month, when I did my top ten Blogosphere moments for Tech Central Station I was careful to credit Free Republic for launching Ra^therGate, before devoting most of my copy to the Blogs who advanced the story, since my piece was about, you know, Weblogs.

Some of the Freepers however, were miffed that I didn’t give them more coverage. But as I said, my piece was about Weblogs, specifically, not the ‘Net in general. (I wonder if they saw my post about election night, where I went out of my way to praise them.)

Thanks to Ra^therGate and Time magazine dubbing Power Line “Blog of the Year“, the Blogosphere is the Internet’s Flavor of the Month. I wonder if there will be additional examples of “Blogger-Creep” either to ride that wave, or to discredit the Boys in the ‘Sphere.

(Say, now there’s a name for a group Blog…)