The Economist on blogging

The Economist has a reasonable enough look at blogging this week - specifically, a look at how blogs might make money. Dave Winer is having a pop at them for two things: first, they made a mistake in saying Blogger didn't have a paid-for version before its acquisition by Google (it did - Blogger Pro was launched in early 2002, as revealed exclusively on this weblog, as it happens) and also for calling Tony Perkins' AlwaysOn Network a weblog. On the latter point, it's a case of "who cares" - Perkins calls it his site a "super blog", and some of the blogging hardcore grumble that he's hijacking blogging to make a few bucks. If he is, good luck to him - and how odd that Nick Denton has avoided such accusations.