] Mossberg spells it out
]
] It's only a matter of time before someone comes out with
] a parlor game edition of "Are Weblogs Mainstream Yet?"
] The media have been playing this game for months, and
] despite so many headlines hinting that indeed, weblogs
] are now mainstream, the text of such articles seems to
] beg off from that notion.
]
] The SF Gate kicked off the game last July with the
] online-only article: "Blogging Hits the Mainstream, For
] Better or Worse." Now what prompted reporter Joyce
] Slayton to think weblogs were mainstream, way before Pyra
] Labs and Blogger.com were bought by Google? Seems there
] was a class offered last fall at UC Berkeley's Graduate
] School of Journalism on blogging. Bloggers were up in
] arms! "They will destroy everything good about it," cried
] the Daily Pundit.

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