Trend: big media as blog hosts?

Big media and blogs - the latest love story? The French newspaper Le Monde has begun to offer its readers weblog hosting in partnership with Typepad.
The newspaper's top 10 blogs features a mix of the blogs its own journalists and those of its readers. At number one is Langue Sauce Piquante, written by the newspaper's language correction team.
Other exemples include and the Herald-Sun of North Carolina offering blogs to local political candidates and the blogging service by the online magazine Salon, powered by RadioUserland.
Big media as blog hosts - will this become the next big thing? It will be seen if would-be bloggers want to ally themselves to a particular media organisation, and all the associations - good or bad - that brings.