newspaper blogging, including readers

We were just settling down on our laurels to have a rest and a cup of tea, and to congratule ourselves on having done something rather new and exciting with the Observer blog, when our attention is brought to exciting developments in France. (Thank you Neville Hobson.)

It turns out that Le Monde, once the stuffiest newspaper in the world by a comfortable margin, has reader blogs. Ordinary punters, as long as they are subscribers to Le Monde online, can lash their blogs to the newspaper's masthead. Meanwhile, a handful of journalists on Libération, a much less stuffy French newspaper, now have their own blogs.

from The Observer blog (part of Guardian Unlimited)

As a side note, it appears the Observer bloggers tag their posts.  A visual folksonomy of recent postings is provided.

As a side side note, I find it amusing that Le Monde is quite happy to use the word "blog".  In Quebec French I think you're supposed to use "cybercarnet".