Daily Ramblings:
Forever Young ...05/03/2005
12:06:17 pm
Is the New Media in too much of a hurry to imitate
the Old Media? The New York Sun today reports on a kind of merger
taking place in the Blogosphere:
In a dramatic sign that Web
logs are going mainstream, three of the largest
political blogs are banding together to form what
is believed to be a first-of-its kind
ad-supported network.
To broaden their appeal beyond
national security issues, the three -
ArmedLiberal.com, RogerLSimon.com, and
LittleGreenFootballs.com - will receive editorial
advice from the owner of one of the most heavily
trafficked blogs, Instapundit.com's Glenn
Reynolds, among others.
The venture will be called
Pajamas Media, a not-so-subtle reference to the
September remarks of a CNN executive, Jonathan
Klein, who said a typical blogger has "no
checks and balances" and is just "a guy
sitting in his living room in his pajamas."
Hmm, read further on, and you hear that the intent
is to have a network of bloggers all over the world,
equipped with camcorders and laptops, covering events
as they happen (I thought we sort of already had
that, though without the formal "network"
part). Advertisers on the network will be able to
take advantage of this global reach.
Well, I'll reserve judgment, but I wonder if I'm
the only one feeling a little queasy?
Know that you can always keep your dial tuned to RightWingBob.com,
secure in the knowledge that there's only one
miserable little guy behind it all - and not a penny
is being made!
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On another, though not totally unrelated note,
(and this is via those evil Big Blogsters Little Green Footballs) the people
behind the search engine GOOGLE have had more of
their inherent left wing bias exposed. RightMarch.com experimented by
submitting an ad to GOOGLE attacking House Democratic
leader Nancy Pelosi. The thing is, they used the
precise same text as an ad GOOGLE was already running
attacking the Republican leader Tom DeLay. The DeLay
ad read:
The Truth about Tom DeLay
Learn about DeLay’s many scandals
and help us clean up the House!
dccc.org
The Nancy Pelosi ad they submitted read:
The Truth about Nancy Pelosi
Learn about Pelosi’s many scandals
and help us clean up the House!
GOOGLE rejected the Pelosi version, saying:
Google policy does not permit
ad text that advocates against an individual,
group or organization.
Ah, you see, it's alright to do it to Tom DeLay,
because he's not "an individual, group or
organization." He's a Republican!
I'm sure that GOOGLE will correct their
inconsistency in this specific case somehow, and
blame it on the failure of some individual editor to
understand the guidelines correctly. Regardless, it's
one of a long string of examples of GOOGLE favoring
the left - e.g. listing liberal blogs under their
"NEWS" service while rejecting comparable
conservative ones.
Right Wing Bob will have
to work on his own huge evil global search engine
technology. Then, no matter what result you get, you
can at least be sure it's Right!
Addendum 03:35:11 pm:
And now here's the BBC
reporting
that GOOGLE has filed a patent on a bit of
"improved" technology for their news story
rankings. The system will "compare the track
record and credibility of different news sources,
" according to a set of variables, including
"story length, number of staff employed and
amount of traffic to its website." Sounds like a
recipe for tipping the balance back to people like
the New York Times, obviously.
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