Time and again we hear that blogs are not newspapers, they are not as reliable, fast or authoritative.

This posting by Jeremy Wagstaff should be grist for the mill for those thinking or observing about such things.

clipped from www.loosewireblog.com

The New Newswire: a Dutch Student Called Michael




Twitter is now a news service in its own right. ReadWrite Web, an excellent website dedicated to Web 2.0 stuff, points out that the recent earthquake in England–not that unusual in itself, apparently, but rarely actually strong enough to be felt by humans—was reported first by Twitterers and by a Twitter-only news service called BreakingNewsOn (www.twitter.com/BreakingNewsOn): 

This story broke over Twitter in the past half hour, and nothing is up yet on the BBC sites, the Guardian, or the Telegraph. This story is breaking live on Twitter.
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March 5, 2008

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