When new, low-cost, highly-convenient subversive architectures reach out to encompass the practices of dominant ones and start feeding consumer demand in the same place, it's usually a clear sign that an industry is being disrupted. Such has been the purpose that technology has served over recent decades - a phenomenal amount of usurping has taken place across vast genres, everywhere from international steel manufacturing to Microsoft's once ambitious dream to link the world with one standardized multi-purpose lifestyle package. The features all these subversive architectures have in common are resolutely the same: they're cheaper, they're more convenient, and they are market-share carnivores on two types of consumer: those who are ambivalent and those who are ignorant.

This is the jist of the hypothesis of "disruptive technologies" coined by Dean of Harvard Business school and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen, who I was fortunate enough to see speak at the Oslo Business Summit last month. To witness live examples of these types disruptions in a market-place is both an exciting and terrifying experience - exciting in that the future suddenly looks so different, and terrifying for the same reason.

Nowhere have such examples been more prescient recently than last week in the field of journalism, when two high-quality, equally highly acclaimed weblogs published well-written, erudite and startlingly professional pieces of investigative journalism.

The first piece to break waves was a thorough report on a terrorist training camp inside New York State founded by Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, the Islamic cleric Daniel Pearl was attempting to interview when he was kidnapped. Daring, provocative, and written with the type of considerable elegance New York Times staffers would be envious of, The Politics of CP's "Jamaat ul-Fuqra Training Compound Inside the United States" was an admirable feat of journalism by the highest standards and even brought local insights and testimonies into the investigation, quoting one anonymous witness with catchy, breathtaking prose:

We see children - small children run around over there when they should be in school. We hear bursts of gunfire all of the time, and we know that there is military like training going on there. Those people are armed and dangerous. We get nothing but menacing looks from the people who go in and out of the camp, and sometime they yell at us to mind our own business when we are just driving by. We don't even dare to slow down when we drive by. They own this mountain and they know it, and there is nothing we can do about it but move, and we can't even do that. Who wants to buy property next to that?