Why does TechCrunch have to be the center of Blogging?
TomOfTTB: Honestly this might not be a popular opinion but if I’m being honest I have to say the "revolution bloggers tried to start" was always a croc.  It dismissed the fact that big news sources got where they were for a reason.  That reason was that they were, at least at one time, the best at delivering information that people want.That’s how the world works.  You don’t have people checking 1,000 blogs for their news.  Eventually a few of those 1,000 establish themselves as the best and they become the center of things.Now there is a natural turn over where big sites stop being the best source for news and new sites take their place.  In that process blogging did make a difference by lowering the barrier to entry.  Michael Arrington started out as one guy reporting on what he found interesting and became the "blog of record" which would never have been possible in old media.But that doesn’t change the fact that there will always be a hierarchy and every hierarchy needs someone  at the top.