Have you noticed how c|net is utilizing bloggers?

I noticed this today.  It may have been going on for some time, but there are a few short articles (they actually call them blogs—hoo-haw) on c|net’s news site, where there is a short blurb from the columnist, and the rest of the article is filled with copy/paste from blogs outside of the c|net domain.  They list these article “additions” as “Blog Community Responses”

Here’s one example of what I’m talking about, from the Google/Dell article:

http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6077415.html?tag=nl

So — is this what is coming for the blogging press?  It is interesting.  I’ll have to wait to see how this pans out, but what a boon for the original poster, i.e., all he has to do is put down a few sentences, and then let the rest of the world’s bloggers do the rest.  If a Pulitzer prize is awarded, do all of the bloggers plus the columnist get a time-share on the award?