An interesting thing is going on at the blog section Comment is free on the Guardian website. Good commenters have been picked to blog, and now they are competing to win a blogging contest (one person out each week) and get a blog alongside the Guardian's professional (journalist) bloggers. Ali McNab is in the competition and apparently doing good, with this post so far the day's most active with 260+ comments. See more here: 'Big Blogger' to pick next Guardian columnist.

I wonder if this competition is indicative of a "new" trend: competitive blogging to get into the established media - rather than blogging as something that exists outside the established media, and as an activity fuelled by personal interests, not the need to "win" any honour. Probably it is a natural outcome of an increasingly blog-populated www-world - we will need activities like competitions (based on reader voters) to help us pick the bloggers, we really want to read.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:32