ArmedLiberal, RogerLSimon, and LittleGreenFootballs are taking blogs to a whole new level by forming an ad-supported network of blogs:

The idea of Pajamas Media is to use an extensive network of globally affiliated blogs to provide first-person, in-depth coverage of most major news events, including both camera and video footage, Roger Simon said.

Using as an example the tsunami that swept through parts of Asia and Africa in January, Mr. Simon said bloggers managed to post hundreds of updates, first-person accounts, and video clips, often before major press organizations could deploy their staffs. With 162 affiliate blogs in dozens of different countries, according to Mr. Simon, the new venture will have the ability to get “in the middle of stories” that major news organizations can’t, “because our affiliates will have a physical proximity, language, and cultural knowledge that the Associated Press man will often lack.” Mr. Simon is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter and mystery novelist whose credits include the Woody Allen directed “Scenes From a Mall” and the Moses Wine detective series.

The best quote comes from the Blogfather:

“I think it is a tired cliche that because there won’t be newspaper editors at PJM, that somehow the product will be diminished,” Mr. Reynolds said. “We do not need four or five layers of editors to screw this up like they have at the L.A. Times. Hopefully, we’ll have live feeds and middle-of-the-crowd commentary from the next Beirut demonstration.”

Roger Simon urges bloggers to join the effort:

It’s been “non-stop boogie ’til you drop” here at Pajamas Headquarters with over 170 blogs now having signed up for Pajamas Media (not to mention untold milblogs) and literally hundreds more making inquiries, including blogs from Siberia and Shanghai! And they come in all shapes, sizes and subject matter – we even have a speleology blog!

Read Simon’s original open letter to all bloggers.

This will be very, very interesting. Even Michelle Malkin promises to join. I’ve never taken money for my blog (it’s not a job), not even a tip jar, but the opportunity to support something that challenges the single-source MSM sounds like the right thing to do. Anything to make the readership of newspapers continue to decline.

Decisions, decisions.