A post about blogging

or, more, how the mainstream media saw blogging shortly after I started blogging:

When the Mainstream Media First Met the Blog

Blogs are such an accepted form of media now that every major newspaper and most Fortune 500 companies have them. Magazine editors blog and federal department heads blog. Gwyneth Paltrow blogs and so does your mom.

But it was only a decade ago that blogs were seen as some strange beast rising out of the Internet abyss. The following press accounts recount early traditional media encounters with these reverse-chronological dragons that indicated the edge of the media map.

Thanks to PF Anderson, who tweeted the link.