November 12, 2005
Major media blogs
Major media blogs (like Newsweek's "business blog" or MSNBC's "news blog") miss the point of the blogs I bother to read. They aren't about anything terribly specialized, the journalist usually is fairly clueless, and they fail to match the richness and insight of the typical blog on a topic like PaidContent or Broadband or Social Networks or Search.
They also have less annoying ads - usually text ads or highly targeted, one-off deal ads through their sales departments. Because the blogger reads their own blog, the site usually doesn't have popups or annoying overhead interface stuff that the "webmasters" have pushed on them. So the site is faster and easier to use.
And yes, blogs are updated a lot and tend to be commentary. But that's not all there is to it and that's what the big media imitators are so far missing.
Posted by amol at November 12, 2005 01:30 PM
