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April 25, 2005
A bothersome example?
Via Glenn Reynolds, I see that Matt Drudge has the honesty to admit he does not read blogs: As he approaches his 10th anniversary as an online clearinghouse for forthcoming news stories, unreleased books, tabloid yarns, Hollywood chatter and unconfirmed, sometimes bogus, rumors, Drudge, 38, is now treated more as an amusing diversion than a threat to journalistic integrity. The white-hot debate these days is over the role of bloggers, whom Drudge says dismissively he doesn't bother reading.Hey, it's still a free country, and no one can make anyone read anything. It's no more unfair to not bother to read blogs as it is to not bother to read a daily paper. Or books, for that matter. What with information overload, it's a wonder some of us can find the time to read anything. Still, I'm puzzled by one teensy tiny detail. If Drudge does not bother to read blogs, then why does he bother to link James Wolcott's blog? Is the link given by way of example? posted by Eric on 04.25.05 at 10:08 AM
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Nick, you've always been a wonderful influence on CV. When I get all politicked out, I like to ask, WWTFD? Remember my weekly Online Test Days? It often took more work than the rest of the week, and one of the things that kept me doing it was comparing results. Nothing like more future nostalgia! Eric Scheie · April 25, 2005 05:49 PM "WWTFD"... bwa ha ha! Flea · April 26, 2005 07:25 PM Hmmm... It's been 10 years already? Congrats to Matt on the very-major stuff that he's accomplished these past years... Recently, I was not too happy to find out that a couple of other Republican students did not know who Matt Drudge was, or about the significance of the Drudge Report. And Flea - Coincidentally, I was just thinking about your blog very recently, because I was looking for some neat stuff on the web, to break the monotony, around this of the semester, when we have to crunch everything in in this short time before the semester ends. Is there a web page that lists all of your past "dance" moves? (I may have to [steal] borrow your theme for a blog entry of my own this week!) Aakash · April 28, 2005 06:07 AM |
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There was a moment last year when I realized that blogging for me had become more about writing than about reading. This was partially about the time I came to spend researching and publishing my blog but was also about the ever increasing amount of time it took to interact with people sending email or leaving comments. It is has been a happy transition for the most part and obviously I am delighted that people seem to be interested but it is definitely a different experience than coming to the blogosphere primarily as a reader. I remember when Classical Values and the Flea both had something like 25 inbound links... heady days! Matt Drudge's newsfilter is still a daily stop for me as it is for, what, a million other people? I have had over a hundred-thousand uniques so far this month so I am just beginning to imagine the psychic pressure putting out the Drudge Report must be even with the staff and the big money, etc. Small wonder he says he doesn't read blogs.