Blogging In The New York Times

Thomas Friedman's latest column in the NYT is worth checking out because it makes some good points about the sad fact that most suicide bombers around the world are Muslim.

But this piece is a landmark for very different reasons because Friedman -- for all intents and purposes -- is blogging in that column. He referenced articles available in the Financial Times and the Independent in the UK...and linked to both of them. Now, major papers have linked to government documents or extra info they compiled while creating a story. But linking to the work of competing newspapers around the world? That is a big step for an institution like the NYT and it's due solely to the growing popularity of bloggers. Can readers' comments be that far behind?