Paul Bradshaw at the Online Journalism Blog distributed a survey to blogging journalists, and the results are in. Some findings: Blogging journalists get "story leads from comments on the blog or through private communication initiated via the blog," have "a clearer perception of audience needs and interests as a result of comments and visitor statistics" and find that "the previous process of 'moving on' to the next big story and forgetting about the old one no longer applies" since blogging allows for updates and corrections. Random Mumblings writes, "I don't think we're completely beyond the 'bloggers vs. journalists' debate ... but Bradshaw's charts do show significant positive movement." Native Edge says, "This makes a nice counterweight to the 'all bloggers are bigmouths with their own agendas' idea that some PR and communications people have been pushing." And Teaching Online Journalism writes that it's not that blogs will ever replace journalism. "Blogs are already part of journalism."

Meanwhile, Royal Pingdom has a visual history of 11 successful blogs, what they looked like when they started and what they look like today. "It's interesting to see that many of the blogs that are huge today started only about three years ago. We wonder what the blog landscape will look like another three years from now. Perhaps some of the blogs just starting out today will be among the giants of 2011?"

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