Great piece covering several perspectives on the growing importance of blogs:

There's been a massive amount of good stuff on participatory journalism and ancillary subjects lately. This post doesn't even begin to cover it all, but it's a good start. Our faves out of the bunch: Glenn Reynolds on local blogs; Outing on editors getting nervous about blogging reporters; Ross Mayfield on the difference between social networks and online communities.

[Hypergene MediaBlog]