In the blogosphere, bloggers are more akin to pilot fish: the sharks tolerate them because they have a small role to play. Maybe a marine biologist can correct me on this, but it looks like the pilot fish needs the shark far more than the shark needs the pilot fish.

Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years

Where Web journalism has been, and where it's likely to go. This is the first of a two-part series.
It seems like ancient history to think of getting online news only through proprietary providers like Prodigy, CompuServe and America Online. But that was life not so long ago during the gestation period for new media.
It's been 10 years since news started being produced for the nascent World Wide Web. In September 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois released a beta version of Web browser Mosaic as the first e-zine to map the Web, and the White House launched a Web site.
· Mixing Reference and Reporting [OJR]
· Al-Jazeera launches English Web site [AP ]
Blogger Jason Soon admits he was wrong on Iraq (Jason is a big Pilot fish & deserves many links)