In a further (and quite clever) attempt to find revenues, Salon is promoting Userland’s Radio weblog software by hosting user’s weblogs themselves and pledging to keep an eye on them, this holding out the tempting prospect of having your weblog made famous by Salon. The downside is that it promotes software that will cost you money over (correct me if I am wrong) software that is just as good and costs nothing like Moveabletype (which I use). The (British) Guardian’s approach is more interesting – they are producing a contest to find the best British weblogs (which doubtless will also dramatically increase the number of links from British weblogs to the Guardian).
27 July 2002
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I’m confused…I’ve read about the Guardian weblog comp, I’ve posted about it too. People seem to be getting really upset with the idea of comparing and judging weblogs. I guess that’s not what surprises me tho’…what does is that if the comparison and judgement is arbitrary (which it surely has to be) why aren’t webloggers seeing it for what it really is, a free-to-enter-lottery for those with a UK weblog.
I may even enter, after all if the judging is subject to individual preference, then surely even *I* stand a chance of winning. But even if I don’t, while the Guardian uses the opportunity to market their ‘right-on’edness, I shall be taking the opportunity to check out the ‘blogs that the competition throws up…
🙂
Comment by dreamer — 28 July 2002 @ 5:39 pm
It’s inevitable really – any time two or more people do a similar thing someone is bound to decide to compare their work. As long as you don’t take it too much to heart I don’t see anything wrong.
Comment by David Brake — 28 July 2002 @ 6:03 pm