Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Speed bumps on the road to ACC expansion…and now the presidents of five Big East schools have written a letter to their ACC counterparts to request a meeting. This is turning out to be more entertaining than a lot of ACC football games… 7:14:55 PM    comment []

Glenn Reynolds on the emergence of paid bloggers. I just spoke to the InstaPundit himself on the phone, watch this site for exciting details to follow… 5:27:46 PM    comment []

It’s a Moxie war, with colorfully profane commentary from Acidman. 5:25:18 PM    comment []

Looks like my tax dollars are being wasted on dimwit professors from across the political spectrum at UNC-Wilmington. 5:22:30 PM    comment []

Todd Morman: "My right to equal protection under the law is not negotiable." 9:28:18 AM    comment []

It’s odd how people with weblogs make the same mistake that people who don’t get weblogs do, portraying self-published online content as existing in some sort of vacuum. Actually, it’s not that odd if you understand blog exceptionalism as a marketing device, but it’s still inaccurate.   Blogs don’t exist in their own world, they are best understood as a new link in the media food chain. Sometimes weblogs are at the top of that food chain, generating and sustaining stories that are picked up by the mass market – just as you can read the NY Times this morning and know what will be on network news tonight, you can read influential weblogs and get a good sense of what the mainstream press will be talking about in a few days.   And sometimes weblogs occupy the same place in the food chain as some rare bird that exists by eating its own droppings.   Mark Glaser in OJR puts the blogasmic triumphalism over capping Raines and Boyd in perspective. The Times editors seem to me to have been forced out by a workplace rebellion, which existed independently of an external commentariat. The mainstream press was fascinated by the story, too. Weblogs fanned the flames, but the fire was burning hot without them. 9:20:14 AM    comment []