Ok, after a week as “Open Source Media”/OSM, the decision has been made to go back to the jammies.
Via OSM: Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas
All of which, as it turns out, has led us to make a change for the better. We are re-assuming our identity as Pajamas Media. (Just give us a few days to sort the technical issues out.) In short, the whole experience of being caught with our pajamas down has been a bit embarrassing, but in the end, when we realized we could get our beloved name back, we were overjoyed. So a warm, hearty thanks to all of you who expressed your displeasure with our phony identity.
Remarkable. This has hardly been a smooth roll out. One wonders how long it will be before some of the bigger names (bloggers and MSM types on the Board) start to distance themselves.
For the record, as I noted the other day, I thought that they should have stuck with PJ Media in the first place.
It is a shame this has been so awkward (and illustrates the pitfalls of doing such things live on the web if one isn’t totally prepared). The amazing thing is that the Huffington Post did a far better job, and it wasn’t made up of real bloggers (although perhaps that’s the key).
h/t: Bryan S., who fisks the press release and is pretty much spot-on.
Nothing from Ann Althouse as yet (Update: actually, she has–for some reason my browser was loading a cached version of her page, so I didn’t see her new posts this morning).
The contributing bloggers who have commented seem happy about the move. See: LaShawn Barber, Tammy Bruce and Decision ‘08.
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November 22nd, 2005 at 10:53 am
OSM Name Change
The folks who run OSM have announced that they’ve somehow managed to get their original name of Pajamas Media back and will shortly be changing their name. Again. Meanwhile, there still doesn’t seem to be an intelligible business model. And,
November 22nd, 2005 at 1:36 pm
Maybe they should have called it Cluster F%#@ Media.
November 22nd, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Huffington Post people included a lot of full time Hollywood writers/actors, who know the importance of a smooth launch. Although Simon and Johnson are from California, they never learned the same tricks. Just my thoughts.