BBC on blogs

Here's an amusing snippet from a couple of years ago. It's from a site called journalism.co.uk which quotes the head of the BBC news online on the subject of blogs:

"It's like all stuff on the web," Mike Smartt, editor of BBC News Online, told dotJournalism. "Dissemination of information is great, but how much of it is trustworthy? They are an interesting phenomenon, but I don't think they will be as talked about in a year's time.

The article is dated 25 March 2003.