BBC blogs the G8

Newsnight, the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme in the UK, will be blogging the G8 summit in Scotland on 6-8 July. Actually, that's not strictly true. Although Paul Mason. On the Newsnight website, it's referred to as "Paul Mason's G8 blog." You'll probably think I'm just splitting hairs here. Ok, main point - there's no question, it's a great example of the growing willingness by more mainstream media journalists to embrace tools like blogs to complement traditional news and information channels. As has been clear for some time now, the blogs, podcasts with a vengeance, and enabling more journalists to use those channels. What I find quite interesting is that Paul's blog is a hosted Joel Cere) Links: Reader Comments... Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: