Newspaper blogs

A new study from Ball State University suggests that newspaper blogs on political issues are largely a waste of time.

But I suspect that it's really too soon to tell. Some newspapers blogs are certainly better than others. I particularly like Dan Froomkin at the WaPo, although one could argue that what he does is more an "online column" than a blog. It has attributes of both.

A good question that is raised by the Ball State researchers is whether salaried journalists at newspapers would be better off using their time to do something other than blogging, perhaps such as reporting.