Have you noticed that lately when major industry news breaks over the weekend it gets a tremendous amount of buzz on blogs, but it doesn't hit the press with any gusto until Monday morning - even online? What happened to having skeleton weekend/standby crews?
Mary Hodder's post on Bloglines and Ask Jeeves tying the knot has already generated more than 126 in-bound links. Meanwhile, the mainstream press have barely noticed this important development. There are some exceptions, however. At least three major news organizations chose to note the Bloglines/Ask story on their weblogs - BusinessWeek, the San Jose Mercury News and eSchool News. Everyone else is out to lunch. This episode typifies today's Long Tail news cycle.
