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The Power of the Blogosphere

This is the best post about blogging you'll read all year: If Harry Markopolos had taken all of his evidence about Bernie Madoff and put it on a blog, instead of submitting it to the SEC, there's a good chance that would have been the end of Madoff right there. All the time Markopolos was talking to the WSJ, trying to get them to run a story about Madoff, would have been much better spent setting up an anonymous Wordpress blog and just putting the information and analysis out there himself.UPDATE: There's also this great comment:I agree - A success story in the same general category is durhamwonderland.blogspot.com. It cataloged the brouhaha between the Duke lacrosse team and Mike Nifong.The mainstream media (including the soon-to-be bankrupt New York Times) was willing to sacrifice three innocent boys at the altar of Political Correctness...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).