Om Malik: Where's Our Love?

Om Malik says it's high time that bloggers are credited for their scoops by the major online news outlets. He notes that this lack of love is a throwback to the early days of the Internet when some of these same sites couldn't get the time of day from "old media." Om writes...

In words of great Yogi Berra, its like déjà vu all over again. An old editor of mine used to say, you have to give credit where it is due. I think one needs to have the same rules for the weblogs as well. Being someone who is fortunate enough to work for a magazine that indulged my blogging habits, it is fairly clear to me that weblogs are not going away.

For more, check out the reaction from Doc Searls, John Battelle, Tom Biro and others. For a similar example of this in the wild, read what Ed Oswald has to say about the WaPo's lack of link love.