Journalists should pay attention to successful blogs to understand web journalism
Michael Arrington started TechCrunch in June, 2005. It’s now the second most popular blog in the world. According to Compete.com, it is read by at least 900,ooo people per month, but that wouldn’t include the reported 500,000 RSS feed subscribers.
As TechCrunch has risen, Business 2.0 has gone out of business, while CNet and Ziff-Davis have hit financial hard times.
Arrington, when asked about blogs taking page views away from traditional news media, had this to say on Charlie Rose the other night: