Woebot
Well-known member
It seems like blogging is really and truly undergoing a bit of a renaissance.
There's the promise of a little action at heronbore, blissblogger has been burning it up recently and soldiers k-punk and silverdollar have been on as excellent form as usual. New blogs? I couldn't really tell you...
In favour of blogging, if you are a self-styled "pundit" then doing one must guarantee you more media visibilty. The cynics out there are going to complain about the superficiality (and ickiness) of this, but its true. Blogging really does have an important role to play in the media ecology (and didn't Rupert Murdoch say as much?) I reckon its indisputable that it can add to your status within that cosmology......if thats what floats your boat.
On the other hand, like i'm sure many people, i'm baffled as to why k-punk doesnt have some kind of regular media gig, a column somewhere. When you look at those glib snapshots of columnists that fill the newspapers and their truly tawdry observations, well you gotta wonder.
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On the subject of blogs what did people make of Momus's Superstar Blogger thing?
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69429,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Momus points to his livejournal stats. Maybe its probably more illuminating to compare the Technorati figures:
BoingBoing:
http://technorati.com/search/www.boingboing.net
16,627 Inbound links
and
Click Opera
http://technorati.com/search/www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/
157 Inbound links
Unkind to point out, and it doesnt detract from the excellent content at Click Opera, but yunnuh there it is.....
There's the promise of a little action at heronbore, blissblogger has been burning it up recently and soldiers k-punk and silverdollar have been on as excellent form as usual. New blogs? I couldn't really tell you...
In favour of blogging, if you are a self-styled "pundit" then doing one must guarantee you more media visibilty. The cynics out there are going to complain about the superficiality (and ickiness) of this, but its true. Blogging really does have an important role to play in the media ecology (and didn't Rupert Murdoch say as much?) I reckon its indisputable that it can add to your status within that cosmology......if thats what floats your boat.
On the other hand, like i'm sure many people, i'm baffled as to why k-punk doesnt have some kind of regular media gig, a column somewhere. When you look at those glib snapshots of columnists that fill the newspapers and their truly tawdry observations, well you gotta wonder.
-
On the subject of blogs what did people make of Momus's Superstar Blogger thing?
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69429,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4
Momus points to his livejournal stats. Maybe its probably more illuminating to compare the Technorati figures:
BoingBoing:
http://technorati.com/search/www.boingboing.net
16,627 Inbound links
and
Click Opera
http://technorati.com/search/www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/
157 Inbound links
Unkind to point out, and it doesnt detract from the excellent content at Click Opera, but yunnuh there it is.....