Other blogs are looking a smidge less than active. It's a Wrap, a blog that covers entertainment news, looks to be relatively wrapped as the most recent post is dated December 12th. I'm as big a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen as they come, but Borat movie news seems kind of 2006 already, doesn't it?
There are also blogs that provide links and some pictures associated with Reuters audio interviews and one called From Reuters.com, which is supposed to be a place where "we invite readers to post comments on major events and send questions to newsmakers and our correspondents on the frontline" but is pretty difficult to tell what it actually is in practice. There are several diaries from a "video embed" scattered in the midst of a reporter embedded with the British army in Afghanistan, which may well be a wonderful and much needed bit of personal reporting from the war front, but it's unfortunately buried among other stories that don't seem all that related to one another.
It will be interesting to see how Reuters plays out its experiment with blogs. One reason why Reuters Blogs seems to be less frequented and updated than it might be is because its blogs are not integrated with the rest of the site and its torrent of up-to-the-minute wire story reports. The New York Times, on the other hand, does a really nice job of mixing its article pages with links to its blogs.
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Eric:
Somehow I wasn't aware that the Times had so many blogs, but it makes perfect sense that the "paper of record" would be at the forefront of the old/new media connection, and I intend to check some of them out. I'd become skeptical of the Times' blogging efforts when they apparently dismantled their real estate blog, "The Walk-Through," which still mystifies me. And the reader's discussion forums I've wandered onto once or twice are an unholy mess. Somehow I expected better from the writers and readers of this media giant.
It also surprises me in a sense that Reuters would not be as cutting edge with their blogs as one might expect. But in a way, it's not surprising because I think there is still a great deal of resistance in some sectors of the MSM toward blogs and blogging in general.
My recent close encounter with a columnist who seemed to discount blogging outright was a bit of an eye-opener as well. As you said, it may take a bit more time until the old and new media reach a "mutually fulfilling" interactive relationship.