maybe you think weblogs are just some kind of wacky fad? a testament to weblogs’ appeal demonstrates why maybe you’d be a little shortsighted:
“I thought you might be interested in an experiment with an online, interactive beat at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. I wrote an interactive blog at a four-day high school basketball tournament. I set up online forums and e-mail lists, and took a wireless laptop to the Arena for four days. I had about 80 blog entries. Some of them were my observations, others were ideas sent to me by readers by e-mail. The thing got so popular, and I was so recognizable by the end of the tournament that fans and even the players were approaching me to tell me stories. I’ve never seen anything like it in 21 years here. I received somewhere around 200 pieces of e-mail, and had an uncounted number of personal contacts.”