'A recent overlooked Web trend

"A recent overlooked Web trend -- overlooked by the mainstream media" columnist John Dvorak declaims, when revealing the amazing blogging phenomenon to the astonished masses. What a pity The Guardian doesn't count as "mainstream media", because we started writing about blogging years ago -- I can't find the first, now, by Jim McClellan, but it was certainly before my Six of the Best: Weblogs list in Webwatch on August 24, 2000. Dvorak's revelations will come as an even bigger shock to tech columnist Dan Gillmor, from that obscure non-mainstream Silicon Valley newspaper, The San Jose Mercury News. He has been blogging professionally and in public since October, 1999.