What is the purpose of newspaper blogs? asks Andrew Grant-Adamson after compiling a newspaper blog index. According to his "raw figures" The Times has 40 followed by the Daily Telegraph 32, The Guardian 12, The Sun 10, the Daily Mail 5, and the Daily Mirror and The Independent 0. His review of the content throws up some amusing examples, but he says he finds the output rather confusing.
"Some of the offerings are very good but too many seem like ways of presenting traditional content in a 'look we understand the digital age' way, while others are dumping grounds for copy that would never get into the paper." Now he'd like to know how many people read them? Would any newspaper online editor care to enlighten him?
