Monday, January 13, 2003 7:30 PM
If you are a daily reader of a news collection like Google News or Yahoo News, you probably have noted that after a given article, there is also a set of links to other articles on the same subject.
Rather than just linking to other articles, it seems logical that the links could also include links to weblogs covering the same subject matter as the article in question. Once a weblogger is established as an authority/pundit on a particular subject, wouldn't this source be as interesting to a reader of Google News as a link to a random newspaper (which is what you mostly see now)?
Google, for example, does not report the news so much as collect and disseminate content created by others. And, looking at an article concerning a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, wouldn't content from a blawg like Goldstein & Howe's SCOTUSblog be more interesting to a reader visiting Google News than the re-telling of the same story by multiple newspapers across the country (especially in these days of reliance on the AP wire and similar)?