ian spiers – now it’s news
we picked up the ian spiers story on july 10th – not terribly quickly – ian’s blog went live on june 19th.
since then, we’ve seen a workshop organized, and the blogosphere [technorati] exploded – reporting 301 inbound links right now.
the stranger picked this up with an interview.
now, major media is in the game…
We’ve seen the enemy, and he is us [seattle post intelligencer, july 14, 2004]
Photo student draws attention of authorities [seattle times, july 14, 2004]
that’s the local media… the breakthrough is when the story gets out on the wires…
ACLU wants answers about questioning of photography student [ap via seattle post intelligencer, july 14, 2004]
Questioning of Photo Student Challenged [ap via abc news, july 16, 2004]
i’ve spent some time working on a little project that has been aching for another example of the blogosphere bringing news to the major media. i’m not sure this is it, but the whole trent lott story is tired.
