An Article on the Growing Blog Boom: from ABC News

It isn't a fad. It is a real 'paradigm-shifter' of communication and publishing methodology. We (bloggers and blog readers) are in the infancy stage now, and soon we will be toddling off into sponsored commercial blogs, blog-based revenue streams and personal/corporate blogging structures that are unimagineable at this writing. Blogs, the immediate distribution of relevant information streamed in nanoseconds to people seeking that information, will transform the current "top-down" model of publishing by removing the 'gatekeepers' and adding literally thousands of editors, fact-checkers and idea people to an ever-expanding network. It will definitely be a braver new world.

ABC News: Silicon Insider: The Great Hidden Tech Boom: "May 5, 2005 -- Having declared newspapers (and most of the rest of the mainstream media) dead, what do we do now?

This isn't an idle question to be bounced around the blogosphere, but a very real and immediate concern that could have a profound impact on how all of us get the news, the reliability of that news, and ultimately, the First Amendment and the freedom of the press."