New York Times launches 1st blog

The New York Times launched its first Weblog today. "Times on the Trail" is a new "continuously updated report from the campaign trail reported and edited by the Washington bureau of The Times and produced by NYTimes.com."

"On the Trail" includes an excellent collection of well-organzed links in the right column, including "a selective guide to today's campaign coverage on the Web" -- the first time we've seen The Times link so extensively to competitors' sites.

And editor's note on the first Political Points post says, "This is the first edition of a new web-exclusive feature by Carl Hulse and other Times reporters that will be added to and updated throughout the day. "

The Times' has been weighing using Weblogs for some time now, so this is not really a surprise. Regular readers of CyberJournalist.net know The Times has already been experimenting with the format in "Kristoff Responds," a Webloggish forum in which Nicholas D. Kristof, Op-Ed columnist for The Times, answers reader e-mail and gives "the story behind the column."

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