Mirror gets blogging

Back from sabbatical today, and catching up on my reading - and spam deletion. And it's good to see this blogging lark is catching on around Fleet Street. After the Times' tentative steps into the blogosphere earlier this month (sorry - they don't do a free archive), the Daily Mirror is getting in on the act with the launch of their iBlog, a tech blog which replaces the now-discontinued Amy's I column in the paper. "Nobody else does it", claimed the Mirror's new internet editor, Steve Purcell, in the Press Gazette the other day. Perhaps we should introduce him to that wonder of the blogosphere, Stephen Pollard, a freelance political journalist who spoke at last month's VoxPolitics event at the House of Commons. He managed to boast - more than once - that he was the only national newspaper hack to have a weblog, while sitting in a room with quite a few... national newspaper hacks with blogs. All in all, I'm sure the arrival of us national newspaper scribes is going to do wonders for the blogosphere's notoriously lax standards of accuracy. Oh yes.