Slate Increases Blog Coverage

Posted on February 24, 2005

Slate.com has added a new section, called Todays' Blogs that provides coverage of what bloggers are blogging about. Today's Blogs is run by Slate editorial assistant Bidisha Banerjee. Slate had some interesting comments about their own new section:

Slate's early-moving version of the idea every editor in America has now had ('Hey, let's assign someone to cover what those bloggers are talking about!') is up, and it's good! ... The "Today's Blog" authors will now be bombarded with unsolicited post-promoting emails. Free advice: Resist the temptation to just write the column off the emails and spend the rest of the day in the park. Unless it's a sunny day or something like that.

They are probably correct in that they will get many emails from bloggers. Slate appears fixated on blogs at the moment -- a different Slate column by Josh Levin compares bloggers to rappers.