AOL has just launched a new blog based service designed to radically alter the way investors gain access to the latest news about companies. Called "Blogging Stocks," the service allocates a blog for each stock.

If you're visiting Blogging Stocks around the time of this post's publication, you're one of the first to view the beginnings of what will be a revolution in the quality, depth and passion of online stock news and analysis. Sure, you can get stock charts (and good ones!) anywhere. You can get the press releases for your whole portfolio in your e-mail inbox or all in one pretty web page. You can read the same wire story in any one of a dozen or more stock-focused interfaces.

Do you need more proof that:

A) Information wants to be free?

B) Blogs are becoming a vital tool in the way we understand the world around us.