While I am a fan of blogging, including them with Yahoo News may not be the greatest idea in the world. I mean, talk about no checks and balances!

The picture at the right comes from one of my favorite groups on Flickr: California Desert. I like this image in particular, because you get the sense that there are times when a path is quite clear. But if you’re looking too closely at things, you get distracted by all those cracks that go in seemingly random directions and lose sight of progress–how ever slow it might be.

In looking over all the feedback I’ve seen about adding blogs to Yahoo! News Search, I’ve seen a surprising number of folks confused and distracted by all those little cracks. But that’s okay, I guess.

To recap, a lot of folks seem compelled to make weird apple vs. oranges comparisons. In doing so, they’re missing what this is really about. Luckily, a few folks have picked up on it. [Read the rest]