What blogs are good at

Doc Searls has just summarised a quick tour of what the various Iraqi blogs are saying at the moment.

He gets a good cross section of opinion and informed comment on a number of issues quickly by clicking, cutting and pasting. This kind of reportage journalism is very easy for a few subjects these days thanks to blogs (Iraq, Tech, US Politics) as a number of consistent and known voices are available around which can be built a network of others.

Surely it's just a matter of time before major news channels (increasingly just news aggregators) start tying this stuff together on a regular basis.

On a completely different not B3ta are trying to launch a TV station.