How bloggers let down over South Ossetia

There will be a lot written about user generated content during the conflict in the Caucasus,this blog has illustrated some of that already and its usefulness especially in areas where the media simply couldn't get to.

Talking though about general blogging,But it is worth reading Joshua Foust's piece over at CJR.Joshua blogs at Registan.net and he writes that

in the case of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia, the blogging world mostly failed to live up to its promises.

and he continues

Soon after the war started on August 8th, on-the-ground reports were being filed by Russian and Georgian bloggers, some of which were even in English and, thus, required no translation. Yet most large blogs just continued to link to the same sources linking to the same stories based on official statements about the war. Or (just as bad) they linked to omnivorous pundits with little more to offer than stridently uninformed opinions. Where is the value added of such a thing?

Admittedly he is looking at the American market which

Rather than providing the clarity, nuance, and honesty that they promise to provide, the big blogs instead retreated to their comfortable and predictable ideological corners. By keeping to their usual haunts, these blogs did their readers a tremendous disservice: they were just as incurious and ideological as they regularly accuse the MSM of being