Well this is an obviously brilliant linkbait. Mark Cuban posts asking the question Do bloggers put in more effort than reporters do?

As more people learn to reject / question self imposed authority in favor of personally and directly voting I have to think that is a good thing for consumers and democracy.

Yahoo! wants you subscribing to channels and tagging them. Google is making it easy to see what others have to say about something.

I have been interviewed by a number of reporters and have also been profiled on many blogs. I don’t think that on average the reporters did a far better job than the bloggers did. In fact, many of the reporters seemed to have even had their desired response built into many of the questions they asked me, and I frequently had to step back and re frame the question I was answering.