Some Tuesday links
Well, I got linked to today by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin and never have I seen such vitriolic hateful email. I feel sorry for political bloggers who get linked by her regularly.
Here are some media-related links for your amusement:
1. A sports blogger who up until recently used a pseudonym outed himself as a Washington Post reporter. He was promptly fired.
2. Here’s a step by step list on how to make your own Judd Apatow movie. If this formula is correct, then he only has about five more movies left before he has run out of Freaks and Geeks cast members to star in his films.
3. While much of the news coverage of Craigslist has focused on the damage it has caused to the newspaper industry, another competitor has decided that it won’t take it sitting down — Ebay has filed a lawsuit against the free classifieds site.
4. Every time you think cable news couldn’t get any worse, you come across a news clip like this one and realize that there is no limit to its vapidity.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall blogger fun fact: the film was directed Nicholas Stoller, older brother than the blogosphere’s very own Matt Stoller!
“I got linked to today by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin and never have I seen such vitriolic hateful email.”
Waaaaahhhh!!!!
Now you know what it feels like to be a conservative blogger.
Jackass.
(vitriolic enough for you?)
The conservative bloggers are not true conservatives. It is characters like Malkin that have ruined the image of the republican party. I honesty don’t think conservative bloggers even believe what they say half the time..but if you’re too dumb to realize that she says things just for shock factor don’t get all pissy when bloggers like Simon call her out on it-Jackass
That Malkin post was funny and instructive. Frankly, though, I get weary of any thread lasting more than 20 comments long. Successful bloggers are good at indiscriminate linking and short meaningless posts. I have to say that high-traffic blogging depends on quantity, not quality.
The point lost on the random angry surfers was that you were analyzing the rhetoric and presentation, not the message itself.
I find it hard to deal with polemical writers. On the left we have highly effective ones (and idiots), but after a while the stridency becomes uninteresting even when you’re sympathetic to their agenda.
One thing which characterizes these writers: repetition. By linking and relinking and relinking to the same old controversies, the blogger hopes to have the last word.
There is much talk about Internet bullying. What about bullying bloggers? (Of course, a lot of bloggers would appreciate any traffic whatever the reason).