Knox News notes that Virginia Beach and DC bloggers kept on blogging during Hurricane Isabel.

With candlelight and backup battery power, bloggers, as they are known, provided first-hand accounts, at times taking breaks to deal with the storm's aftermath.

They go on to quote several well known bloggers, which leads me to ask, have webloggers become free freelance reporters for media outlets now? I wonder if the day will arrive when instead of sending reporters to cover a story, news outlets just tap some well trusted bloggers instead. Ehh.. Probably not.