The Times of London starts a comment blog by Daniel Finkelstein, comment editor and columnist for the paper. It’s far, far less ambitious than the competitive Guardian’s Comment is Free: It’s just one guy blogging. Nonetheless, Finkelstein comes in with high respect for blog commentary and it shows.
If it’s less ambitions than the Grauniad then that’s mainly because many Times journalists and pundits already blog. I think bot the Times and the Torygraph are doing good stuff getting their jornalists to blog too
[...] The comment editor’s daily offerings are also a sign of how The Times is embracing the web but I am rather puzzled by Jeff Jarvis’s suggestion at Buzzmachine that it it is “far less ambitious that the competitive Guardian’s Comment is Free“. They seem to me to be very different animals. [...]