SearchDay - Puzzling Out Google's Blogger Acquisition - 18 February 2003 Google moves to buy Blogger and Chris Sherman offers some good reasons. If you don't know much about blogs, his summary of how many there are, and his characterization of them is on target. With Google being able to collect the eyes, links, and insights of a quarter of a million bloggers, who will need an Editor? I'm not advocating a position here, but trying to get "those who would do news" and "those who would teach about doing news" to look at how the figure/ground and framing of news is shifting as the viewer/user becomes a participant, not a passive receptor of news and views.