We were just settling down on our laurels to have a rest and a cup of tea, and to congratule ourselves on having done something rather new and exciting with the Observer blog, when our attention is brought to exciting developments in France. (Thank you Neville Hobson.)
It turns out that Le Monde, once the stuffiest newspaper in the world by a comfortable margin, has reader blogs. Ordinary punters, as long as they are subscribers to Le Monde online, can lash their blogs to the newspaper's masthead. Meanwhile, a handful of journalists on Libération, a much less stuffy French newspaper, now have their own blogs.
We knew Britain was way behind the US in this sort of thing, but we shamefacedly confess not to have known about the French connection. Allez enfants de la Patrie!
Rubs chin ponderously, wonders what, if not Le Monde, is the stuffiest newspaper in Europe.
No blogs yet on Handelsblatt.
Updated Sunday 27 February 09:58: Well that turned out to be about as wrong as was possible to be, (see comments below). I am sorry Handelsblatt, and especially sorry to its bloggers who I'm sure don't deserve to be maligned by us. Check them out.
Rushes off to sign up for some advanced German lessons.
