Does the Guardian know anything about blogs?

The Guardian has another wrap up of blogs on the bombings including one I linked to a few days back. Tim Worstall. Tim.Worstall@typed.com.

The Guardian calls his blog "typed"? Surely the Guardian has heard of Typepad, I mean its only one of the biggest blog web hosts around. Tim Worstall has picked this up and also this:

The "europhobia blogspot" and the sharpener.net both contained images of the London Eye superimposed with the words: "We defy terrorism."

Lovely, the Guardian editors think blogspot is a bloggers name. Obviously the links weren't subbed at all well. Haven't they heard of blogger or blogspot?

And on that note, this tragedy in London has revealed something about the media. Bloggers actually know what they are talking about most of the time and with the London bombings are actually providing better, and more instant coverage. It was a blogger who posted the Al Qaeda link and story well before the BBC even knew about it. In fact I had it linked before the BBC story went up. It was the bloggers who wrote ball by ball commentaries when CNN were dong updates. It was the bloggers who had the best photos. Then all of a sudden the journalists realised that bloggers were doing something right and the media was missing out on it - and then came the stories based on blog postings and photos taken from peoples cell phones. The bloggers are providing the stories, but the journalists are getting paid for it.

However I`ll give the Guardian some credit - at least the paper has its own blog - which makes it even more inexcusable their editors don’t know their typepad from their blogspot.

At least The Times got it right - in fact in its earlier story it referenced the two blogs that Guardian editors later misnamed.