One of my more daring articles in my short spell at JOAB surely was BlogJournal Changes in the Next Months which I wrote beginning this year. As the still young year continued to progress I saw almost every prediction become reality, and even more.
The Blogging Times
I think no words need to be written about The Blogging Times anymore. It’s not there TBT anymore and the successor, actual TBT format was nothing more than a one-day-wonder.
Please delete this adboard from the net. Thank you.
The Blog Herald
Soon after The Blog Herald was acquired by SplashPress Media it became obvious that the character of TBH would change into Blog Magazine. And the team around Tony, Angelo and formerly Abe have done a great job at this. TBH has become the perfect Blogzine but probably also the most MSM of all blogs about blogging.
No offense. ;-)
901am
What I expected to become THE hit, 901am, remained for months the only relevant source for blog news has recently also been acquired by SPM.
Mimic Rivera, founder of the former TBT became editor at 901am and within days a new spirit could already be discovered. 901am seems to become the new and Blogging Times, covering more main stream media than blog news.
I have admired what David Krug was doing at 901am and he surely had built an interesting team around him, with some remarkable comebacks. Little by little the core group of TBH was hanging out at 901am, with not only TBH founder founder Duncan Riley, but also Matt Craven and Thord D. Hedengren. 901 was an interesting mix of blog related news and occasional spicy snark.
With all those changes the question today is Who will cover blog news? or is this sector totally dead?
Why would this space be given up that soon/easily? So here’s my open call to all former Blog News Journalists.
Lets build together a new blognews covering site. Just for the fun of it and to revive old fame
Honesty upfront… I don’t really believe in asking you guys to write for a fix sum and just do your all day quick and dirty post and buy again.
No lets make this a collective and as the site grows, depending on our efforts, we’ll see revenues rise. Revenues we’ll equally split. If someone else were masochistic enough to do the economical side of the venture, feel free, I am very off hand. :D
Any takers?
Duncan? Matt? Thord? Martin (Yes, I don’t want to be the only controversially writing author) ?
Anyone else?
Hit me up and lets make this a fun and interesting venture.
Fine print: I am in regular with contact with SPM and this is not meant as an attack or a temptative to become the newest competitor. Just trying to fill the [by SPM] left void. :)
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1 jangelo // Apr 25, 2007 at 8:25 am// View all comments by jangelo //
“TBH has become the perfect Blogzine but probably also the most MSM of all blogs about blogging.”
I guess that reputation has long been there even before SPM acquired TBH. :)
TBH is still evolving (if you may call it that), btw.
At any rate, if you’re planning something I hope I can help out in any way. But I’m not sure if I’m able to directly participate due to possible conflict of interest.
2 franky // Apr 25, 2007 at 8:37 am// View all comments by franky //
Angelo, I would never require any exclusivity. I just miss ‘the space’.
The only thing which counts to me is the will and interest to participate and build something. And the rest would be up to the team if they think a conflict of interest might become an obstruction one day. :)