Sports Blogging: All Growns Up?
1-liner, Blogging February 10th. 2009, 2:45pmBlogging: “I felt like many of the top bloggers were just hanging out with each other and copying the themes in each others’ work. As I’ve complained before, it seemed like every writer fit the same generic template: NY/DC dweller, male, aged 24-34, white, well-educated, middle-class, liberal, and non-religious … But I also think that the storytelling has gotten a little more balanced.” Discuss. (MC Bias)
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February 10th, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Awwwwww, yeah!
February 10th, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Ughh… blogger navel gazing is the worst. Sorry, but it’s true.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I should add that the use of the term “navel gazing” is also horrible, so I apologize for that.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:06 PM
that’s it? nobody found that insightful?
February 10th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
I’m not sure there was a big difference between 2008 and 2007…
February 10th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
I feel like Leslie Nielsen when he’s looking through the microscope with the wrong eye.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:22 PM
I think a lot of bloggers have realized that with more blogs comes more competition. This has then created an environment where the best blogs survive. No longer can you just rant about any topic, but now you must have a well thought out idea that isn’t something that is spur of the moment.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:35 PM
Insightful, how? More like d-d-d-dduh. Any medium gets better over time if it gets to see where others both fail and succeed. I lot of people looked at most blogs and said, “hey, I can do a better job than that.” I think the quantity of blogs out there made it more diverse, and also the quality has gotten better to keep viewers. If it didn’t improve, people go elsewhere and the blog dies. Duh.
February 10th, 2009 at 3:42 PM
that’s it? nobody found that insightful?
HE GOT ONE COMMENT ON THIS POST ON HIS OWN BLOG! What would you like, a War and Peace on it?
February 10th, 2009 at 7:04 PM
jp, I tried to comment over at MCBias and it got held up, so there is some tech issues going on. Anyway, is blogging “growing up”?
It certainly has more than MSM has (although Yahoo seems to be growing up some). Part of it was the Will-Buzz catalyst, and the other part is that America is in post-Bush world. In the economic climate of 2009 even people who hate barry bonds’ guts can understand how spending 55 mil to nab him is completely preposterous. Still, the overall blogoshere has a long, long way to go.
OTOH, I see absolutely no improvement from ESPN whatsoever. Still making up TMZ stories about T.O; still suspending reporters who challenge their corporate partners; and still spending resources to investigate BS stories over real ones.