Some weeks ago I wrote a brief post on the power of bloggers in providing useful, fast information. Search among blog posts are more efficient than traditional Google searches, in my opinion.

Now Andy Abramson writes an article on “Instant Journalism”:

With all that is going on this year at CES, an event I’m going to for the next few days, it’s going to be the independent news sources, not the main stream media where a lot of the so called “breaking news” and more interesting stories are told. With blogging, podcasting and video blogging happening from anywhere there’s an IP connection, we have entered an era of “Instant Jouralism” and of “just in time” distribution of news content.

This is a great opportunity for anyone has a real talent, a mobile phone and a blog. And it is also an opportunity for the Internet readers, which can retrieve news, information, comments, ideas, impressions, data, statistics, and much more. Easily and in short time.

Then comes the role of searches among blogs:

Search engines for blogs will also take on a new level of importance, with old school search engine optimization going out the window, as the blog search tools care only about two things, how recent is the posting and how relevant is the post to the keywords searched for.

So, here comes my (provocative) proposal: why don’t we launch IJA, Instant Journalists Association, providing a Instant Press Pass to all the members? This pass would have not an effective role during a conference, but it can be worn with the conference badge to promote the IJA :)

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