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Friday, August 03, 2007
Creating our own ladder
This morning I attended a session entitled "Evolution and Integration of the Blogosphere", a self-congratulatory panel moderated by Chris Bowers (late of MyDD), featuring Tracy Russo (blogger for John Edwards' campaign), Ali Savino (Center for Independent Media), the Big Blue Smurf, Amanda Turkel (ThinkProgress), Amanda Marcotte (Pandagon), and Matt Stoller (late of MyDD).
I can't say I didn't anticipate the self-congratulatory, "holding court" atmosphere of this session, but what struck me was the similarity between the "We're successful because we work really hard and if you work as hard as we do you can be successful too" message that those who were early adopters of the blog format convey and the "I got mine and fuck you" attitude of Republicans. The so-called "top-tier" bloggers have been defensive of late at having been accused of running a closed shop. At this panel, that defensiveness was very much in evidence, enhanced by the "panel on the podium talking to the assembled masses layout of the room. I thought my head would explode when Tracy Russo opined that the reason they have been successful is because they work very hard to get where they are.
When you think about some of those bloggers lurking just below the top tier, people like Driftglass and the Group News Blog folks, the idea that hard work is what makes bloggers successful (and by implication, those who are still trying to achieve traction are slackers) is like saying that Warren Buffett is more successful than the average family living in the projects because he works harder.
Isn't this illusion of meritocracy and this notion that it's ALL about hard work the very thing we knock when Republicans advocate against a social safety net? Don't we rail against Republicans for insisting that the reason you can no longer afford to pay your mortgage isn't because you had to train your H-1B replacement and you are over 50 and can't find another job but because you simply aren't trying hard enough? Isn't a certain degree of collectivism and sharing part of progressive philosophy? So for a progressive blogger to claim "It's all because we work harder than you do" in a room full of bloggers, is breathtaking.
To be fair, later on in the session, lip service was given to the notion of outreach, but it's clear that the belief that because there is no formal central authority who decides who makes it and who doesn't there is no elitism among bloggers is preposterous. Chris Bowers loves to joke about "We all take our orders from Markos", but his voice drips with condescension towards the Great Unwashed Masses as he does so.
The other topic discussed was whether the individual blog has gone the way of the dodo -- another meme that has been given a lot of air of late. I wrote movie reviews online for seven years, and in the heyday of online film criticism, we faced the same issues -- whether an individual reviewer could generate enough content to make a viable site. Online film criticism evolved from many individual sites to group collective sites. Gabriel (ModFab) and I started Mixed Reviews from two individual sites, but later on we added two more critics. Anyone reviewing movies online was sooner or later asked to "gain exposure" by writing for another startup online magazine -- no payment, just "links and exposure." Now, with political blogging, history is repeating itself. Earlier this year, WNBC in New York fed shrimp to a few hundred bloggers offering to provide "links and exposure" in exchange for bloggers providing content to General Electric. Group blogs are running around here recruiting contributors, saying "We need content." Of course they do. Ever-changing content is required to generate the traffic that generates ad revenue. But I think it's dangerous to buy into the meme that it is somehow OK to give away your work in exchange for some vague promise of "links and exposure."
The reason that the Heathers in a high school have power is because those not in that inner circle bestow power upon them by longing to enter the club. The reality is that most of us aren't going to make a living blogging. We will continue to have to work a real job, take care of kids, pay the mortgage on time, and other mundane aspects of life. So we have to decide for whom it is we blog, and why we blog. I blog because for me, writing is like breathing. If I stop doing one, I may stop doing the other. I blog so that people I know who may not read other blogs see the stories they may not find elsewhere. I blog to keep my sanity. I blog because not to do so is unthinkable. I blog because by writing, I come across other writers who visit this blog who blow me away with their talent.
And THAT is what lower-tier bloggers ought to be doing. Forget about the big boys. You're never going to be invited to play golf with the CEO and you're never going to be in their club. Decide why you blog, and help out other bloggers who deserve greater recognition. Blog because you love it. Don't blog for ad revenue, or for recognition by the famous, or because you want your name on the masthead of a group blog. If you want a blog that reflects your own identity, don't let anyone talk you into giving that up so you can be part of a group blog where someone else makes a living.
On Sunday, I'll be inviting five or six people to guestblog from August 11-17. Those who aren't selected shouldn't think it's because their work is lacking. I'm just another mid-tier blogger who isn't going to have computer access for a week. Frankly, I'm thrilled that there have been so many people who want to guestblog. Part of my mission is to recognize writers I think are good so that the few hundred people who visit here every day will consider visiting them too. My eyes are always open.
And that's a promise.
I can't say I didn't anticipate the self-congratulatory, "holding court" atmosphere of this session, but what struck me was the similarity between the "We're successful because we work really hard and if you work as hard as we do you can be successful too" message that those who were early adopters of the blog format convey and the "I got mine and fuck you" attitude of Republicans. The so-called "top-tier" bloggers have been defensive of late at having been accused of running a closed shop. At this panel, that defensiveness was very much in evidence, enhanced by the "panel on the podium talking to the assembled masses layout of the room. I thought my head would explode when Tracy Russo opined that the reason they have been successful is because they work very hard to get where they are.
When you think about some of those bloggers lurking just below the top tier, people like Driftglass and the Group News Blog folks, the idea that hard work is what makes bloggers successful (and by implication, those who are still trying to achieve traction are slackers) is like saying that Warren Buffett is more successful than the average family living in the projects because he works harder.
Isn't this illusion of meritocracy and this notion that it's ALL about hard work the very thing we knock when Republicans advocate against a social safety net? Don't we rail against Republicans for insisting that the reason you can no longer afford to pay your mortgage isn't because you had to train your H-1B replacement and you are over 50 and can't find another job but because you simply aren't trying hard enough? Isn't a certain degree of collectivism and sharing part of progressive philosophy? So for a progressive blogger to claim "It's all because we work harder than you do" in a room full of bloggers, is breathtaking.
To be fair, later on in the session, lip service was given to the notion of outreach, but it's clear that the belief that because there is no formal central authority who decides who makes it and who doesn't there is no elitism among bloggers is preposterous. Chris Bowers loves to joke about "We all take our orders from Markos", but his voice drips with condescension towards the Great Unwashed Masses as he does so.
The other topic discussed was whether the individual blog has gone the way of the dodo -- another meme that has been given a lot of air of late. I wrote movie reviews online for seven years, and in the heyday of online film criticism, we faced the same issues -- whether an individual reviewer could generate enough content to make a viable site. Online film criticism evolved from many individual sites to group collective sites. Gabriel (ModFab) and I started Mixed Reviews from two individual sites, but later on we added two more critics. Anyone reviewing movies online was sooner or later asked to "gain exposure" by writing for another startup online magazine -- no payment, just "links and exposure." Now, with political blogging, history is repeating itself. Earlier this year, WNBC in New York fed shrimp to a few hundred bloggers offering to provide "links and exposure" in exchange for bloggers providing content to General Electric. Group blogs are running around here recruiting contributors, saying "We need content." Of course they do. Ever-changing content is required to generate the traffic that generates ad revenue. But I think it's dangerous to buy into the meme that it is somehow OK to give away your work in exchange for some vague promise of "links and exposure."
The reason that the Heathers in a high school have power is because those not in that inner circle bestow power upon them by longing to enter the club. The reality is that most of us aren't going to make a living blogging. We will continue to have to work a real job, take care of kids, pay the mortgage on time, and other mundane aspects of life. So we have to decide for whom it is we blog, and why we blog. I blog because for me, writing is like breathing. If I stop doing one, I may stop doing the other. I blog so that people I know who may not read other blogs see the stories they may not find elsewhere. I blog to keep my sanity. I blog because not to do so is unthinkable. I blog because by writing, I come across other writers who visit this blog who blow me away with their talent.
And THAT is what lower-tier bloggers ought to be doing. Forget about the big boys. You're never going to be invited to play golf with the CEO and you're never going to be in their club. Decide why you blog, and help out other bloggers who deserve greater recognition. Blog because you love it. Don't blog for ad revenue, or for recognition by the famous, or because you want your name on the masthead of a group blog. If you want a blog that reflects your own identity, don't let anyone talk you into giving that up so you can be part of a group blog where someone else makes a living.
On Sunday, I'll be inviting five or six people to guestblog from August 11-17. Those who aren't selected shouldn't think it's because their work is lacking. I'm just another mid-tier blogger who isn't going to have computer access for a week. Frankly, I'm thrilled that there have been so many people who want to guestblog. Part of my mission is to recognize writers I think are good so that the few hundred people who visit here every day will consider visiting them too. My eyes are always open.
And that's a promise.
Labels: Alpha Dogs, bloggers, blogging
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Poking the Atrios Bear
Please join me in welcoming Atrios Alpha Dog purgee The Republic of T to the blogroll of this little Z-list blog. Another Atrios purgee, Orcinus, has been here for a long time.
UPDATE: I must have struck a nerve, as Le Grand Atrios has deigned to make an appearance in the comment and re-affirm B@B's status as a Z-list blog, and correct me: Orcinus is still on his blogroll. My information, which came from Republic of T, who in turn got it from Booman Tribune, is incorrect. Because we here at Brilliant Central strive to not be completely full of shit, I have duly corrected the above. And as I have now expressed the appropriate gratitude to Dr. Black for the correction, I am hoping that he ultimately decides that shooting me, Terrence, or Steven D., or any combination of the above, in the face, would be counterproductive.
Skippy, the ONE TRUE KING of Blogtopia (unlike all those pretenders to the throne), weighs in here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Atrios, again wasting even MORE of his precious time at this little Z-list blog, insists that Republic of T was never on his blogroll. Because I have to hold down a full-time real job in order to help pay the mortgage and buy gluten-free cat food, I have little enough time for blogging that I really don't feel like spending MY time consulting the Wayback Machine, so I've reworked this post again. Now I can go back to my insignificant and unimportant writing about the horror that is life in the Bush Years, and Atrios can go back to his far more important work:
UPDATE: I must have struck a nerve, as Le Grand Atrios has deigned to make an appearance in the comment and re-affirm B@B's status as a Z-list blog, and correct me: Orcinus is still on his blogroll. My information, which came from Republic of T, who in turn got it from Booman Tribune, is incorrect. Because we here at Brilliant Central strive to not be completely full of shit, I have duly corrected the above. And as I have now expressed the appropriate gratitude to Dr. Black for the correction, I am hoping that he ultimately decides that shooting me, Terrence, or Steven D., or any combination of the above, in the face, would be counterproductive.
Skippy, the ONE TRUE KING of Blogtopia (unlike all those pretenders to the throne), weighs in here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Atrios, again wasting even MORE of his precious time at this little Z-list blog, insists that Republic of T was never on his blogroll. Because I have to hold down a full-time real job in order to help pay the mortgage and buy gluten-free cat food, I have little enough time for blogging that I really don't feel like spending MY time consulting the Wayback Machine, so I've reworked this post again. Now I can go back to my insignificant and unimportant writing about the horror that is life in the Bush Years, and Atrios can go back to his far more important work:
Labels: Alpha Dogs, bloggers
Great Moments in Progressive Blogging II
Nice:
Methinks Dr. Black is feeling a bit defensive these days. Here's the post that drew his ire. And here is Skippy's take on the whole thing.
Poking the bear indeed.
Methinks Dr. Black is feeling a bit defensive these days. Here's the post that drew his ire. And here is Skippy's take on the whole thing.
Poking the bear indeed.
Labels: Alpha Dogs, bloggers
Friday, March 30, 2007
Great moments in progressive blogging
I guess this kind of insight is what has made Atrios an alpha dog in progressive Blogtopia (® Skippy)
Labels: Alpha Dogs, bloggers
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Around the Blogroll (and elsewhere)
Here's what you should be reading today:
Andy Ostroy on Media Castration during the Bush Presidency. (And just as an aside, he thinks Al Gore is going to announce a presidential run in September. Mark your calendar. If he's right, then things get interesting.)
Maryscott O'O'Connor recaps the latest banning brouhaha that apparently went down over at Le Grand Orange (now with extra Skippy, who shows that Kos the Great and Terrible isn't being as magnanimous by allowing individual blogrolls as he says).
If you haven't been reading Poor Impulse Control in the days since Tata's dad begin hospice care at home, don't miss it. You'll laugh, you'll cry -- sort of like what Tata is doing. Picture Art Buchwald's hospice salons on hallucinogens and you'll sort of get the picture.
Pierre Tristram has some thoughts on the impact of Elizabeth Edwards' illness on her husband's campaign. I'm not sure I'm as fatalistic as he is, and I sure as hell don't think this is about John Edwards being too ambitious to care for a sick wife. I think it has to do with the kind of person Elizabeth Edwards is:
Melina puts Marc Maron's e-mail that he is once and for all, definitively and irrevocably finished with Air America Radio into perspective. (Now with added parrots!)
Knut, the orphaned polar bear cub in Germany, has his own blog! It's in German, but you can't have everything. (h/t: Tami)
If this doesn't make your cranium explode from a lethal combination of teh joy and teh cuteness, then you are not human:
Look at the goofy expression on this newscaster's face as he introduces the story, and on the face of everyone in these video segments. I'll be you look like this right now too. I know I do.
Andy Ostroy on Media Castration during the Bush Presidency. (And just as an aside, he thinks Al Gore is going to announce a presidential run in September. Mark your calendar. If he's right, then things get interesting.)
Maryscott O'O'Connor recaps the latest banning brouhaha that apparently went down over at Le Grand Orange (now with extra Skippy, who shows that Kos the Great and Terrible isn't being as magnanimous by allowing individual blogrolls as he says).
If you haven't been reading Poor Impulse Control in the days since Tata's dad begin hospice care at home, don't miss it. You'll laugh, you'll cry -- sort of like what Tata is doing. Picture Art Buchwald's hospice salons on hallucinogens and you'll sort of get the picture.
Pierre Tristram has some thoughts on the impact of Elizabeth Edwards' illness on her husband's campaign. I'm not sure I'm as fatalistic as he is, and I sure as hell don't think this is about John Edwards being too ambitious to care for a sick wife. I think it has to do with the kind of person Elizabeth Edwards is:
Melina puts Marc Maron's e-mail that he is once and for all, definitively and irrevocably finished with Air America Radio into perspective. (Now with added parrots!)
Knut, the orphaned polar bear cub in Germany, has his own blog! It's in German, but you can't have everything. (h/t: Tami)
If this doesn't make your cranium explode from a lethal combination of teh joy and teh cuteness, then you are not human:
Look at the goofy expression on this newscaster's face as he introduces the story, and on the face of everyone in these video segments. I'll be you look like this right now too. I know I do.
Labels: Alpha Dogs, bloggers, polar bears
Skippy has a good summary of the many accomplishments of the progressive blogosphere so far in 2007, from the unsurpassed coverage of the Libby trial by the Firedoglake crew, to the pressure on media outlets in regard to the bile spewed by Ann Coulter, to Josh Marshall's detailed coverage of Prosecutorgate (such that even Time's Jay Carney, who had been reluctant to believe that this scandal was anything less than ordinary, had to apologize).
It's all the more disheartening, then, to see Atrios, who's getting so obnoxious he's giving Kos the Great and Terrible a run for his money, dismiss everyone he's purged from his blogroll -- and the many others he's never bothered to read -- as being unimportant because if you weren't as early an entrant into Blogtopia (® Skippy) as he was, your blog by definition sucks and you aren't worthy of attention.
The response from Lesser (sic) Blogtopia® shows far more insight than most of Dr. Black's recent posts, which until he decided to get outta Dodge for a few days, leaving Eschaton in the competent hands of far better bloggers than he, such as Attaturk, Echidne, and Tbogg, consisted of an open thread, a link to a McClatchy debunking of the "Clinton Defense" for Prosecutorgate, a link to Fred Kaplan, and the extreme effort of one paragraph about Tim Russert on the Today show.
Weighing in are some people you ought to bookmark instead of the Heathers:
Demosthenes: The Topic That Shall Not Rear Its Head
Skippy, at My Left Wing: try to follow this...
Renee in Ohio: The megablog as black hole , Who gets to determine our "value"? and I Can't Believe It's Not A Meritocracy!
Cernig: Atrios Sulks 'Kos His Writing Sucks
It's all the more disheartening, then, to see Atrios, who's getting so obnoxious he's giving Kos the Great and Terrible a run for his money, dismiss everyone he's purged from his blogroll -- and the many others he's never bothered to read -- as being unimportant because if you weren't as early an entrant into Blogtopia (® Skippy) as he was, your blog by definition sucks and you aren't worthy of attention.
The response from Lesser (sic) Blogtopia® shows far more insight than most of Dr. Black's recent posts, which until he decided to get outta Dodge for a few days, leaving Eschaton in the competent hands of far better bloggers than he, such as Attaturk, Echidne, and Tbogg, consisted of an open thread, a link to a McClatchy debunking of the "Clinton Defense" for Prosecutorgate, a link to Fred Kaplan, and the extreme effort of one paragraph about Tim Russert on the Today show.
Weighing in are some people you ought to bookmark instead of the Heathers:
Demosthenes: The Topic That Shall Not Rear Its Head
Skippy, at My Left Wing: try to follow this...
Renee in Ohio: The megablog as black hole , Who gets to determine our "value"? and I Can't Believe It's Not A Meritocracy!
Cernig: Atrios Sulks 'Kos His Writing Sucks
Labels: Alpha Dogs, bloggers
Monday, February 19, 2007
The accidental link
Heh. I have a link at Atrios. It's embedded in a quote from ShakesSis (Thanks for the link, Shakes!), but it's there.
It must have killed him to post it.
Anyone else notice how Dr. Black is all of a sudden doing real posts?
It must have killed him to post it.
Anyone else notice how Dr. Black is all of a sudden doing real posts?
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