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When Blog Networks Make News, Silence Abounds

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the catching-up-with-the-'real'-outlets dept.

1sockchuck writes "It's been a bad week for transparency and disclosure in the blogosphere, demonstrating that once blogging starts making money, the rules change. Nick Douglas was dismissed from ValleyWag, Jason Calacanis bolts from AOL, and co-founder Duncan Riley abruptly departs from b5media. Where do we get the real story? From The New York Times, or not at all. If we've come to expect honesty and straight talk from blogging icons, it's because so many blogospheric leaders have told us we should. And now suddenly we're getting the snarky insider accounts of blogospheric dirt from The New York Times?"

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  1. Wait a second... by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny

    .. are you saying that MySpace and Livejournal aren't reliable sources of information?

  2. Re:Blind Trust by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did anyone else just have a flashback to Reading Rainbow? Now I want to see some kids do overly-enthusiastic reviews of the articles...

    Butterflies in the skyyyyyy, I can go twice as higgggghhhhhh.....

  3. blogosphere, blog this, blog that... by colourmyeyes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else nearly vomit seeing the word "blog" that many times?

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    My grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be 120 years old.
  4. Re:Duh by jlarocco · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also works with question marks.

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    Maybe not