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Det verkar alltid vara stora och viktiga händelser som sätter fokus på bloggar och svetsar samman dem. Xeni Jardin skriver i en artikel hos Wired om den spanska bloggsfären, hur katastrofen med oljetankern Prestige fick spanska nätläsare att inse att traditionella media inte berättade hela sanningen. Så här säger en spansk bloggare:

All of a sudden it became obvious that TV and newspapers weren't providing us with the truth. We saw things on weblogs that contradicted what we were seeing in conventional media -- digital snapshots and first-person reports posted by independent people, individuals, who'd traveled to the oil spill site to help with cleanup. We were reading these live blog accounts, and it was as if the entire country realized at the same time we weren't being told the truth. The media was just lying.

Protesterna mot Irak-kriget figurerade också i hög grad bland bloggar, också här gav de en annan bild än StorMedia:

Millions of people demonstrated -- flags hung from houses, antiwar street art covered walls all over Barcelona and Madrid, and everyone could see that the traditional news outlets weren't reporting accurate numbers. Temporary wireless networks were created at the protests for projecting streaming video from blogs throughout the Net, so that people could witness demonstrations happening in other parts of the world as they gathered to protest here. This was the first time this sort of thing had ever happened in Spain on that scale, and the Net made it possible.

Man protesterade också mot ett par lagar som gjorde livet på nätet svårare i Spanien. En journalist tror att den ekonomiska nedgången för vanliga media kommer att innebära ett lyft för bloggar: "this year, the combination of Internet growth in general and their own internal crisis will make blogs a very, very important part of the mediascape here. This is the year that blogs become a household word in Spain."