What Bloggers Do

Authored by Michael Pate on June 14th, 2003 at 11:01 PM

Many bloggers are experts in fields that are far too narrow or niche-oriented to ever be covered in depth by mainstream publications. For someone looking for information on these fields, finding a good blog and just going through its blogroll can be more informative than hours of more traditional searching. In this sense, bloggers are constructing a sort of massive distributed index of the Web, with each blogger contributing a tiny bit to the index. That index will never be 100% comprehensive, but odds are its coverage will map pretty well to the information that’s generally available (subjects with lots of Web resources will likely have many bloggers covering them, those with few resources will have fewer), so the gaps won’t be as glaring as you might think. - Jason Lefkowitz