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Jeff Jarvis, big-time blogger (BuzzMachine.com), isn't in L.A., but he thought of the Times as he was looking to make the point that newspapers sprouting in Iraq should emulate websites and blogs by aggregating worldwide sources of news:
"It can cram a tremendous amount of information into a small space (compare any weblog post to any LA Times story and tell me which is informative in less space and time)."