Reuters, the world’s leading financial information and news organisation, has just invested $7m in blogging. They have announced that they are to use the services of Pluck, providing the outputs of blogs as part of their news service. The fact that such a respected news information organisation like Reuters is going to use blogs as part of its output should be a signal to us all as to the value of blogging. If you are not blogging, you are nowhere on the Internet these days.
Politicians need to start blogging
The UK newspaper, The Guardian, suggests today that politicians need to harness the power of blogging. Indeed, the article says “The political party that can harness blogs to its cause is the one that will
