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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (100015)	2/12/2005 11:30:17 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793729

So bloggers broke the story instead. I think Hewitt is onto something with his use of the term, "Blog swarm." An incident like this one breaks, and a dozen or so of the influential blogs show interest. What is seen is that they are talking about the story. What is not seen is the thousands of their readers who are checking out any part of it that fits their competance and emailing the bloggers. Out of this swarm comes a lot of facts that would take the normal mainstream reporter days to put together. First off, someone did some lexus/nexus work on Eason and pulled up his previous references to this story. Ed Morrisey at "Captain's Quarters" got the emails and put them together into a whole that was immediately picked up by the other blogs. Then one blogger with the "clout" to do it [Michelle Malkin] got through to the three most well known eyewitnesses and got their first hand story. This hit the rest of the bloggers at light speed. This info made the story take off. What happened is that this new "swarm" system made the bloggers become a distributed, self assembled, investigative newspaper that turned out the complete story at light speed.