I follow journalists on the OSU beat via Twitter.
I stay away from the blogs for the most part. With all due respect to any bloggers in our midst, there's too much shadiness in where the info is actually coming from. Much of it seems to be re-packaged content from other sites that are actually doing the legwork.
For instance, I just went to one of the blogs linked above and saw that it wasn't until the fourth paragraph of the entry that the story on Perkins' commitment was attributed to Dave Berk with a link.
Others are worse.
They give you a link in the regular text of the article, but you never actually need to click thru to because they have lifted the content wholesale from the original reporter who is never named on the blog.
If I want aggregated Buckeye news, BuckeyePlanet just does a better job in my opinion. Posters here provide attribution and a link up front, and only include a snippet of the content rather than lifting the whole thing or worse, re-writing it as our own.
If I want opinion, analysis or
shenanigans, I think BuckeyePlanet does that better too. We have a rich community of smart, funny and dedicated fans here, and it's not as much of a one-way platform as a blog is.
