IP Democracy: Tech Blogs are the New Media Elite?

The Wall Street Journal’s Lee Gomes has a column today that validates my view and gives a boost to my fellow bloggers, if not in name, then in spirit. Gomes contends that tech blogs are the new stars in the media sky.

Reporters for the big mainstream newspapers and magazines, long accustomed to fawning treatment at corporate events, now show up and find that the best seats often go to the A-list bloggers. And living at the front of the velvet rope line means the big bloggers are frequently pitched and wooed. In fact, with the influence peddling universe in this state of flux, it’s not uncommon for mainstream reporters, including the occasional technology columnist, to lobby bloggers to include links to their print articles.

Gomes casts a spotlight on Gabe Rivera’s Techmeme, well-deserved recognition for a site that most tech bloggers check several times a day. He also notes that unlike political blogs, which need the mainstream media to feed them, tech blogs don’t rely on the big guys as much as serve as the source for the mainstream press.

The major difference between politics blogs and tech blogs is that many of the former still depend on the mainstream media to provide the grist for their mills. The tech blogs, though, have become a world onto themselves, and require no such crutch.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on December 7, 2005 7:49 AM to IP Democracy