Comments on: Death of blogosphere II http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kate Crawford http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200180 Kate Crawford Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:32:16 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200180 I wasn't surprised when the rant-pack over at Tim Blair's blog went off half-cocked (after all, they gotta work with what they got) based on Blair's misrepresentation of my interview with Trioli . For fun, let's just set the record straight. I was brought on her show to explain why the 'death of blogging' Sunday Times piece was *bollocks*. In my view, blogging is maturing as a medium and is more popular than ever. While blog registrations are levelling out here and in the US (as a recent study by Gartner has shown), blogs can be found in a host of different forms - submerging into mass and micro-media alike - not all of which show up on research registers (twitter, anyone?). Blogging is, in fact, more political and socially powerful than ever before. With this maturation of blogging, we're also seeing a hierarchy emerge. This was my second point: we are seeing more readers gravitate to the larger, group blogs. At this point, I noted two examples of large blogs to Virginia: Tim Blair in Australia (funny how he didn't remember that bit) and The Daily Kos. It's 'top in the table' in terms of hits over the last 12 months, netting over 512,000 per day at the moment. I didn't talk about the blogs I personally read obsessively, as that wasn't why I was there. Neither do I think there's anything wrong with cats (puhleaze). In fact, new media theorist Geert Lovink noted in a terrific presentation last year that despite all the talk about the revolutionary potential of blogs, the *most popular* topic on blogs is still... cats. So you can't really talk about blogs without talking about 'em. All hail our feline masters. I wasn’t surprised when the rant-pack over at Tim Blair’s blog went off half-cocked (after all, they gotta work with what they got) based on Blair’s misrepresentation of my interview with Trioli . For fun, let’s just set the record straight. I was brought on her show to explain why the ‘death of blogging’ Sunday Times piece was *bollocks*. In my view, blogging is maturing as a medium and is more popular than ever. While blog registrations are levelling out here and in the US (as a recent study by Gartner has shown), blogs can be found in a host of different forms – submerging into mass and micro-media alike – not all of which show up on research registers (twitter, anyone?). Blogging is, in fact, more political and socially powerful than ever before. With this maturation of blogging, we’re also seeing a hierarchy emerge. This was my second point: we are seeing more readers gravitate to the larger, group blogs. At this point, I noted two examples of large blogs to Virginia: Tim Blair in Australia (funny how he didn’t remember that bit) and The Daily Kos. It’s ‘top in the table’ in terms of hits over the last 12 months, netting over 512,000 per day at the moment. I didn’t talk about the blogs I personally read obsessively, as that wasn’t why I was there. Neither do I think there’s anything wrong with cats (puhleaze). In fact, new media theorist Geert Lovink noted in a terrific presentation last year that despite all the talk about the revolutionary potential of blogs, the *most popular* topic on blogs is still… cats. So you can’t really talk about blogs without talking about ‘em. All hail our feline masters.

]]> By: Pavlov's Cat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200179 Pavlov's Cat Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:30:35 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200179 Oh poop (so to speak), sorry, link doesn't work. Go to <a href="http://crazybrave.net" rel="nofollow">Crazybrave</a>, then to Zoe's Flickr pix and the set called Text On Ur Cat. Oh poop (so to speak), sorry, link doesn’t work. Go to Crazybrave, then to Zoe’s Flickr pix and the set called Text On Ur Cat.

]]> By: Pavlov's Cat http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200178 Pavlov's Cat Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:26:53 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200178 <blockquote>Who was the cat blogger who wrote â??Iâ??m in yr vege patch hidin my poozâ???</blockquote> <a href="http://" rel="nofollow">Zoe</a>.

Who was the cat blogger who wrote â??Iâ??m in yr vege patch hidin my poozâ???

Zoe.

]]> By: Helen http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200177 Helen Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:50:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200177 "Teh cats is in our blogs, makin’ the MSM crazy." Who was the cat blogger who wrote "I'm in yr vege patch hidin my pooz"? “Teh cats is in our blogs, makin’ the MSM crazy.”

Who was the cat blogger who wrote “I’m in yr vege patch hidin my pooz”?

]]> By: GoAwayPlease http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200176 GoAwayPlease Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:36:48 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200176 OK, apologies, I did it from memory. <a href="http://adrianmonck.blogspot.com/search/label/Eldon Anderson" rel="nofollow">this one is a proper copy</a>. The Adrian Monck site is very good value, as is 'Adrian Monk' in another way altogether. OK, apologies, I did it from memory. this one is a proper copy.

The Adrian Monck site is very good value, as is ‘Adrian Monk’ in another way altogether.

]]> By: GoAwayPlease http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200175 GoAwayPlease Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:33:09 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200175 That's a straight cutnpaste and I got it following it's sidebar listing on <a href="http://www.adrianmonck.com/" rel="nofollow"> the journalism Watchdog Adrian Monk</a> site in an opinion disagreement between Huffington & Trioli, my money's on The Huff. That’s a straight cutnpaste and I got it following it’s sidebar listing on the journalism Watchdog Adrian Monk site

in an opinion disagreement between Huffington & Trioli, my money’s on The Huff.

]]> By: Kim http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200174 Kim Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:04:10 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200174 Interesting, and a good idea, CatBlogger, do you have a link? Interesting, and a good idea, CatBlogger, do you have a link?

]]> By: CatBlogger http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200173 CatBlogger Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:53:52 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200173 and ... "Ariana Huffington of HuffingtonPost.com is planning to recruit large groups of citizen journalists from around the US to cover individual presidential campaigns for the 2008 election. "Each volunteer reporter/blogger will contribute to a candidate-specific group blog -- offering written updates, campaign tidbits, on-the-scene observations, photos, or original video," she said. The content produced will be shown on both HuffingtonPost.com as well as Jay Rosen’s NewAssignment.net. Around 40 or 50 people are expected to track individual campaigns with up to 100 covering the frontrunners. In the spirit of pro-am journalism, editors will review work as it comes in to find the most interesting content. "Our volunteer reporters will aim to provide an <b>authentic counter-narrative to the lockstep consensus we often get from the M</b>ain<b>S</b>tream <b>M</b>edia," Huffington said. Source: Market Watch and …
“Ariana Huffington of HuffingtonPost.com is planning to recruit large groups of citizen journalists from around the US to cover individual presidential campaigns for the 2008 election.

“Each volunteer reporter/blogger will contribute to a candidate-specific group blog — offering written updates, campaign tidbits, on-the-scene observations, photos, or original video,” she said.

The content produced will be shown on both HuffingtonPost.com as well as Jay Rosen’s NewAssignment.net. Around 40 or 50 people are expected to track individual campaigns with up to 100 covering the frontrunners. In the spirit of pro-am journalism, editors will review work as it comes in to find the most interesting content.

“Our volunteer reporters will aim to provide an authentic counter-narrative to the lockstep consensus we often get from the MainStream Media,” Huffington said.

Source: Market Watch

]]> By: GoAwayplease http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200172 GoAwayplease Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:04 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200172 from About Cats.com "Ernest Hemingway was an amazing man, with many talents and interests. He was also an inveterate cat-lover, because he admired the spirit and independence of cats. Hemingway acquired his first cat from a ship's captain in Key West, Florida, where he made his home for a number of years. This cat, which may have been a Maine Coon, had extra toes (technically known as polydactyl, latin for "many digits"). Today, approximately 60 cats, half of them polydactyl, make their home in the Ernest Hemingway Museum and Home, in Key West, protected by the terms of his will. At least some of those cats are descendents of Hemingway's first cat, and are given fanciful names, as he once did, after movie stars and even characters in his book. " Trioli has always irritated me. from About Cats.com
“Ernest Hemingway was an amazing man, with many talents and interests. He was also an inveterate cat-lover, because he admired the spirit and independence of cats. Hemingway acquired his first cat from a ship’s captain in Key West, Florida, where he made his home for a number of years. This cat, which may have been a Maine Coon, had extra toes (technically known as polydactyl, latin for “many digits”).
Today, approximately 60 cats, half of them polydactyl, make their home in the Ernest Hemingway Museum and Home, in Key West, protected by the terms of his will.
At least some of those cats are descendents of Hemingway’s first cat, and are given fanciful names, as he once did, after movie stars and even characters in his book. ”

Trioli has always irritated me.

]]> By: Hemingways Cats http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200171 Hemingways Cats Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:25:17 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/03/27/death-of-blogosphere-ii/#comment-200171 Mr.Hemingway forgot to add that he has CATS NAMED AFTER HIM and would certainly have HIS Polydactyl Pussies on Friday CatBlogging and stuff you Virginia. Mr.Hemingway forgot to add that he has CATS NAMED AFTER HIM and would certainly have HIS Polydactyl Pussies on Friday CatBlogging and stuff you Virginia.

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