] My knee-jerk reaction was to find out who broke the
] story, how it spread, what the blogs were saying, how the
] mainstream press reacted. And this was indeed an
] interesting story within the story; one that's already
] been told so many times it feels like ancient history
] already (thanks to bloggers). The San Jose Mercury News'
] Dan Gillmor broke the story on his weblog while Pyra
] co-founder Evan Williams was on a panel at "Live from the
] Blogoshere," who then updated his weblog and projected it
] to the audience. Another blogger on the panel, Tony
] Pierce, later complained that the Los Angeles Times
] reporter in the house didn't even write up the buyout
] story. (Pierce does a much better job than I could
] tracing the breaking story online.)