I was happy with Pajamas Media. I was then happy with Open Source Media. I am again happy with Pajamas Media. Yes, still!

To understand why, read this post by Vanderleun. Excerpt:

If you call and say you're from something called "Pajamas Media," that is a perfect formula for never, ever getting the appointment or even the call returned. "Pajamas Media" is a spiffy little name, a quaint handle, a warm notion, and above all two words that have "inconsequential" stamped across them in bright red letters. Sometimes you have to let the things of childhood go in order to make your way in the real world and to get a chance to run with the big dogs. Much in the way that kids get upset when you take a toy away, so a bunch of bloggers were upset a name rich in nostalgia but little else has to get put away. They were upset in less time than it takes a knee to jerk and that knee has kept on twitching. You might say that the group could have gone forward and, by God, made those big advertisers pay attention no matter how funky the name. Perhaps. But in general nothing is impossible to those who don't have to pay the bills, find the revenue, and do the work.

On a certain level, I'd offer those who ate the chicken, listened to Judith Miller blather about how great in bed the newspaper that betrayed her still is, and drank the Kool Aid at the W Hotel a steaming hot cup of that classic blog beverage, STFU. But they're bloggers and bitching is what they do. You might herd cats but that doesn't mean you'll ever change them.

And who would want to? Nobody sane at Open Source Media. And because they're so not sane, they've done the perfect akido move in the blogsphere and gone back to their Pajamas. Adios Open Source, we hardlly knew ye. I guess big media will just have to get used to it. Do you Yahoo? Do you Pajamas? Are we not men? No, we are Pajamas! We shall just push this flannel rock up the slope again and again.

I'm an absolute moral relativist about these things, though. I'll wear a suit while telling the MSM assholes I'm proud of the pajamas I don't own. I care enough to not care.

What's the definition of blogger elitism, anyway? I'm pretty sure I could manage to fail whatever test might be required. (Certainly, I'm no celebrity blogger, I act against my own interest and then brag about it, I consciously violate many of the rules I've read about what it takes to succeed in blogging, and I probably violate the rest unconsciously.) As long as they don't define blogger elitism as forcing yourself to post something every goddamn day regardless of how you feel, I think I'm in the clear.

I'm glad Pajamas Media, Open Source Media, Pajamas Media is showing some daring, genuine, initiative. There's no pleasing people who hate elitism, though, and there's no pleasing people who love elitism either.

That's the sort of duality which pleases and intrigues me.

MORE: I also read Jim Lowney's excellent post (which wouldn't open earlier). I saw nothing which made me feel any differently or which really seemed to contradict what I said. (But I'm not truly open, and I don't have a solid business plan.)