As far as I can tell, the difference between a cleanly written, researched and cited weblog post on a topic with which the author has expert familiarity lacks only two things that a newspaper article or professional journal has: peer review and editorial oversight. And some weblogs can argue that they do have these (Slashdot, kuro5hin to some degree). As long as reputation and accuracy can be established, why should they be any less credible against, say, a Jayson Blair article in the New York Times?

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