Comments on: The Blog Mob http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/ The View From Connecticut's Northwest Corner Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:10:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Janet Manko http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2698 Janet Manko Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:49:55 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2698 OK, it's good to know this blog has plenty of copy editing in addition to the opinion, and the real thing, too. Thanks for doing the research for me! I think Woody Allen quoted Groucho in Annie Hall. But I haven't verified... OK, it’s good to know this blog has plenty of copy editing in addition to the opinion, and the real thing, too. Thanks for doing the research for me! I think Woody Allen quoted Groucho in Annie Hall. But I haven’t verified…

]]> By: Terry http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2677 Terry Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:53:55 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2677 According to my <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023106/0231069901.HTM" rel="nofollow">Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations</a>, Groucho said, "I don't care to belong to any social organization which would accept me as a member." I believe he was declining membership in some Hollywood club. According to my Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Groucho said, “I don’t care to belong to any social organization which would accept me as a member.” I believe he was declining membership in some Hollywood club.

]]> By: terry mccarthy http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2676 terry mccarthy Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:43:40 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2676 Interesting. I thought it was Woody Allen, too. Then I did the research. It was Groucho. From Duck Soup, I think. But I might be wrong. Interesting. I thought it was Woody Allen, too. Then I did the research. It was Groucho. From Duck Soup, I think. But I might be wrong.

]]> By: Janet Manko http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2675 Janet Manko Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:20:46 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2675 Terry McCarthy, I think the quote about not wanting to be a member of a club that would have you is from Woody Allen - Guess he could have stolen it from Groucho. Of course, a good copy editor would know this for sure. That's what's really missing from blogs, just as it's missing from many print publications now. Good copy editors keep the written word based on reality, not conjecture. They're irreplaceable, and disappearing... Terry McCarthy,
I think the quote about not wanting to be a member of a club that would have you is from Woody Allen - Guess he could have stolen it from Groucho. Of course, a good copy editor would know this for sure. That’s what’s really missing from blogs, just as it’s missing from many print publications now. Good copy editors keep the written word based on reality, not conjecture. They’re irreplaceable, and disappearing…

]]> By: Jake http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2671 Jake Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:51:15 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2671 The same meme was offered by Time magazine in the recent issue in which they celebrated ME as the "Person of the Year". The online media depicted in that article consisted of MySpace pages, various pop culture blogs, and insipid YouTube videos produced by teens alone in the bedroom with a video phone and an ipod. Scrupulously absent were blogs and web sites run by leading economists, foreign policy experts, military strategists, artists, librarians, informed sports enthusiasts and skilled movie reviewers... let alone the legions of policy and political analysts who are funnier, brighter, and more skilled than those found on the printed pages. Of course if you spent half your life preparing for a career in a monopoly industry, only to have it invaded by The Whole World, it would be hard to have much more than sour grapes to offer. But as leading media analysts have noted ad nauseum, the MSM has a product quality problem, and until they learn to compete, their long, not so slow decline will continue. The privileged few have lost the means of production (or more specifically, the means of distribution). It is tempting to say... "beware what you ask for. You might just get it." (At least now, finally, most journalist know who Schumpeter is.) The same meme was offered by Time magazine in the recent issue in which they celebrated ME as the “Person of the Year”. The online media depicted in that article consisted of MySpace pages, various pop culture blogs, and insipid YouTube videos produced by teens alone in the bedroom with a video phone and an ipod.

Scrupulously absent were blogs and web sites run by leading economists, foreign policy experts, military strategists, artists, librarians, informed sports enthusiasts and skilled movie reviewers… let alone the legions of policy and political analysts who are funnier, brighter, and more skilled than those found on the printed pages.

Of course if you spent half your life preparing for a career in a monopoly industry, only to have it invaded by The Whole World, it would be hard to have much more than sour grapes to offer. But as leading media analysts have noted ad nauseum, the MSM has a product quality problem, and until they learn to compete, their long, not so slow decline will continue.

The privileged few have lost the means of production (or more specifically, the means of distribution). It is tempting to say… “beware what you ask for. You might just get it.”

(At least now, finally, most journalist know who Schumpeter is.)

]]> By: terry mccarthy http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2666 terry mccarthy Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:24:34 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/12/20/the-blog-mob/#comment-2666 Blogs are here to stay. Would that I could be so certain about op-ed pieces like that one in the WSJ. My hope is that the two could live together. I have a blog, and I've been writing op-ed pieces since the late 1980s ( Even had one published in the WSJ ) You're right. There are good blogs and bad blogs. My guess is that there are a lot more bad ones than good ones. I think it was Groucho Marx who said that he wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have him. Club Blogger is one anyone can join. Including yours truly. Getting on the op-ed page requires a writer to go through a process. His work gets looked at, along with the work of others. The op-ed piece one writes competes for limited space ( And growing more limited every day ). Posting an entry on my blog's a good thing. Getting published is better. But, as that " blogger " Montaigne wrote: what do I know? Blogs are here to stay. Would that I could be so certain about op-ed pieces like that one in the WSJ. My hope is that the two could live together. I have a blog, and I’ve been writing op-ed pieces since the late 1980s ( Even had one published in the WSJ ) You’re right. There are good blogs and bad blogs. My guess is that there are a lot more bad ones than good ones. I think it was Groucho Marx who said that he wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have him. Club Blogger is one anyone can join. Including yours truly. Getting on the op-ed page requires a writer to go through a process. His work gets looked at, along with the work of others. The op-ed piece one writes competes for limited space ( And growing more limited every day ). Posting an entry on my blog’s a good thing. Getting published is better.

But, as that ” blogger ” Montaigne wrote: what do I know?

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