“While professional journalists turn up their noses, weblog
pioneers invent a new, personal way to organize the Web’s
chaos.”
“… the message was clear: People who provide links to other
people are performing a low, menial task that any boob can handle,
and that doesn’t deserve comparison to the hallowed labors that
constitute the august tradition of “journalism.”
“Well, I beg to differ. And, more importantly, the behavior of
millions of Web users suggests that they place an extremely high
value on the reliable, timely provision of useful — or quirky, or
overlooked — links.”