Weblogging has been boosted because it presents an immediate way to report and respond to news, as the War in Iraq has demonstrated. The temptation to go for the easy post, as in posting without proper attribution is always there. Sean-Paul Kelley whose blog "The Agonist" got lots of publicity recently for his war coverage. Too bad for him, that his coverage was from a research and commercial intelligence company, Stratfor. The story will become a classic in the annuls of plagiarism as far as I can tell. Wired News: Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying