Many in the Blogosphere have been talking about yesterday’s LAT piece on blogging: Blogging Sells, and Sells Out (because we love it when they talk about us).
James Joyner have a lengthy piece on the subject that is worthy of a read. I concur with his basic thesis that the basic of blogging really haven’t changed in the last two years–save for the fact that there has been more recognition of blogs in the mainstream.
Indeed, the whole phenomenon reminds me of the growth of talk radio in the early 1990s–for years the mainstream press ignored the very existence of talk radio and treated it as transient and beneath notice. I distinctinly recall Larry King denying he had every heard of Limbaugh in the early 1990s, for example, even after Limbaugh had been national for some years and was one hundreds of station (either Larry had his head in the sand or simply didn’t want to acknowledge the competition–he was still on nightime talk radio at the time, which had been the only viable niche in the market for talk). Nowadays, however, no mention of political media is complete without mentioned talk radio. Now, I think you can add blogs to the list.
Likewise, it was only last year I remember hearing Rush Limbaugh discount blogs and bloggers as not very relevant and not really knowing what they were.
Now, Rush regularly quotes bloggers and cites blogs. What a shift.
Comment by Erick-Woods Erickson — Monday, September 27, 2024 @ 1:53 pm