Le Monde puts reader-bloggers at the same level as journalists
I am blogging a lot about it these days but I keep being surprised by the launch of the Le Monde blogs
Le Monde is one of the first newspaper in the World to offer blogs to their readers, under the Le Monde brand. They have also published a ranking of the 10 top blogs, mixing their journalists blogs and their readers blogs, showing them at the same level, based on blog readers recommendations.
After only two days after launch, 4 reader blogs make it in the top ten, that is lead by journalists, the blog of the language correction team of Le Monde (1st) that everybody talks about here (five people at Le Monde do nothing but correcting the French language of the journalists to be perfect French and they blog in a very humoristic way) and that of Francis Pisani (2nd) who reports on technologies from California.
Here are the blogs of the readers that made it in the top 10:
6 - Y a des questions que...
7 - Bostella
8 - James Blog
10 - Vous avez aimé le Liban
Looks like a competition between professional journalists blogs and amateurs blogs... This has been on for a long time on Technorati, but here it is under the Le Monde brand...