King Kaufman, in Salon, writes about the disparity between the number of baseball and football bloggers. Conclusion: baseball has a daily rhythm, plenty of stats, and a literary tradition that all lend to decentralized, non-professional commentary. However, I was interested enough to get a daypass just to find out where these blogs are.
Why? With decent sports blogging, you could probably synthesize all the sections of USA Today out of RSS feeds. There's plenty of US politics related feeds for the front page, the BBC's RSS provides a pretty good start to an international section, you can get A&E to whatever granularity you want, and sports would almost complete the mix. Tech business falls out pretty well, but I'm not sure about more general economic/business reporting even in the vicinity of The Wall Street Journal. Maybe that could be cobbled out of vertical industry feeds.
Just a thought.
Memo to self: isn't it about time for someone to predict the death of Salon again?
Memo to Salon: Your RSS feed headlines are slowly sucking me in. Must... resist... subscribing...