The Power of the Blog

There are blogs with readership that compete with magazines and newspapers. OK, I admit that none of mine are in that mega status.

Even The New York Times wrote about it. They, along with other large--mega--mainstream media, even "track" their articles and list the blogs which link them(mention them using the access link). When I write about an article (including its link of course for easy reference) from the Times or Newsweek, I frequently find those elite publications listed as "referrers." That means, that when I check how many, who and how people have "visited" my blogs, I can see that they were referred by The New York Times, for example.

The Jerusalem Post and other newspapers even have a blog section in its internet edition. A few favored bloggers are considered as honored columnists. I presume that this is going on in newspapers all over the world.

Back to that NY Times article, they feel that it was the power of the blogging which helped convince the publisher, Little, Brown, to recall Kaavya Viswanathan's controversial book "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" because of plagiarism.

It's hard to keep a secret nowadays.