Althouse: Blogosphere hemispheres.

August 1, 2005

Blogosphere hemispheres.

The Anchoress worries about the blogosphere splitting.

5 comments:

I'm Full of Soup said...: From the standpoint of one who consumes blogworks (is that a word?), the hemispheres issue is not meaningful to me. I'll find blogworks I like no matter who is running the ads and no matter the blog's affiliation.

Just like NFL football fans don't care which network is televising their favorite games, the fan simply goes out and finds it on ..NBC, CBS, ESPN, etc.

Granted there is a bit of camarderie today amongs bloggers, but like the early bootleggers or the first adventurers to offer commercial airplane service, that feeling of brotherhood will gradually decline as the industry matures and competition for eyeballs grows.; 8/1/05, 5:01 PM
Ann Althouse said...: AJ: I agree that it doesn't matter from the readers' perspective. There is a danger of the bloggers themselves becoming antagonistic toward each other if some become "management" and take on a corporate mentality.; 8/1/05, 5:08 PM
Ron said...: I worry that somehow the blogosphere will go from genuine discussion and conflict (say, between left and right) to a kind of kabuki play of collegial "fighting," without the intensity and passion. Do we really need the internet version of the WWF?; 8/1/05, 5:22 PM
Ron said...: bill: but doesn't money enter the picture at some point for nearly everything people do? Including punk! It's how we make our peace with the fishmongers among us, (go ahead, say that out loud!) that determines if we still keep the coolness or we go the way of Liz Phair...the lack of transparency bothers me also, and that's why I stand by Ann's arguments.; 8/2/05, 10:21 AM
Sigivald said...: First, the blogosphere splits.

Then those blogospheres split.

And soon, they destroy us all.; 8/3/05, 2:55 PM