The Guardian's Comment is Free Blog Has 200+ Contributors

Posted on March 19, 2006

The Guardian's Comment is Free website is off to a quick start. The site slightly resembles the format of the Huffington Post. Comment is Free has a growing list of bloggers (200+ so far) that contribute to the site's group blog.

Comment is free is a major expansion of Guardian comment and analysis on the web. It is a collective group blog, bringing together regular columnists from the Guardian and Observer newspapers with other writers and commentators representing a wide range of experience and interests. The aim is to host an open-ended space for debate, dispute, argument and agreement and to invite users to comment on everything they read.
The blog is updated regularly through the day, with best blogs featuring on our pick of the day. We also carry all the comment from the Guardian and Observer newspapers, giving readers the chance to comment on these articles directly for the first time.
Comment is free is the home of If, the cartoon strip by Steve Bell - Britain's most celebrated political cartoonist - making its debut on Guardian Unlimited after 25 years in the paper. Dan Chung, our award-winning photographer, also has his own photo-blog. And we regularly podcast Guardian and Observer political and cultural debates.

The Guardian also publishes about twelve other blogs in addition to the Comment is Free and its associated weblogs. It will be interesting to see if any U.S. newspaper publishers attempt a group blog on the scale of the Comment is Free or the Huffington Post.