I blogged for the Guardian today - new blog powered media appearing

I am not a journalist, for sure. I am a blogger and I blogged today for The Guardian, on

"Minding your own business

French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur offers seven golden rules - for doing nothing"


Few weeks ago, Neil McInstosh who is Online Deputy editor of The Guardian, London, read some of my notes about creating a company and what bloggers say about it.


Neil sent me an email asking me if I would agree to write an article for him about the value of the idea in the process of starting a business, for a fee. What was very strange for me is on the one hand the fact that he found me on my blog and on the other hand it was the first time I would get my ideas published directly in a newspaper without going through the mind of a journalist.



It is very interesting how I see two type of journalists or editors emerging. The ones who get the blogging and the others.



Here is what Neil says about blogging and journalism:


"We're finding that blogs are a very useful source for us to find new and interesting people to write for us. Late last year, we even got a reader of our own weblog to write a comment piece for us, after he left some very interesting comments on one of our entries. It's all part of the wider discussion that weblogs are provoking, both about the news and the nature of news."


I also met Tony Perkins , of Always-On in Davos. I will soon blog about Tony and Always-On in more details but clearly he is inventing a new form of media based on bloggers, with the people behind Weblogs-Inc (I would love to meet them too by the way) and more recently TJ who just launched in Germany Creative Weblogging. It seems TJ is also trying to launch a new type of media, blogs powered, here is what he says about it.


Interesting. There is only one thing that I am sure about, the traditional media companies that do not get it will lose some of their audience to the ones who get it, like The Guardian.


What do you think about that ?