Blogs and sausages
Posted by Adriana Cronin-Lukas
Thursday, June 17, 2004 @ 03:15 PM
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Blogs & Blogging
Jeff Jarvis compares Sean Bonner's metblogs to sausage:
... and you know what the say about watching sausage being made.
According to the blurb on their site, metblogs offer hyper-local look at what's going on in the city. Hmm, Mr Jarvis is right about why their contents are equally unappealing as that of a sausage.
A blog, like any media thing, has to deliver something of value to its audience or it won't have an audience.
The faux blogs do not offer value for value, all they want is your eyeball, just like the traditional interruption marketing. They put a veneer of 'engagement' on it, which show lack of respect for their audience. Let's see what happens to such blogs. I guess they will be the one mentioned in the press as examples of corporate blogging...
Update: In earlier version of this post, I had a meaty go at Calacanis blogs as they seemed to be implied by Jeff Jarvis. Apparently, Jeff Jarvis meant Sean Bonner's metro blogs, not Calacanis blogs. I must agree to differ, my point applies for both. Yeah, I am tought like that.
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hmm.. well it's been pointed out by several people that Jeff only slammed my sites because he thought they were Jason's - and because he's been attempting to do the same thing. I'm not sure why you are calling them "faux blogs" though - what makes they faux? I searched and found "real bloggers" with "real blogs" in every city before asking them if they wanted to contribute. I've been blogging since 1998, I just set up a site with other people who have been blogging for a while, some a VERY long while - how does that all the sudden make them faux? Where is the lack of respect?
While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I'm releived that you and Jeff are the only people who've had anything bad to say about it and the rest of the comments I've gotten and read have been overwhelmingly positive. The sites are also the same as blogging.la - still just run by me and Jason DeFillippo, not some big corp. We did set up a company for it, but really that's just to make it one step harder to sue us personally when one of the hundreds of bloggers on our network says something that pisses someone else off.
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