Afternoon Must-Read: Mark Thoma: Weblogging

…Blogs have changed this. The reporting today on economic issues is so much better than it was then, and that is due in no small part to the interaction between reporters, the public, and academics willing to blog and put complicated, technical matters into terms that the general public can understand. Reporters have access to a much broader array of informed voices than ever before…. A few people who wrote about economics in the blogosphere, mostly non-economists, have moved on and I wish them the best of luck. But economics blogging isn’t dead, far from it…