There’s plenty of room under the sun for all sorts of experiments in putting blogs together into new kinds of media products. It looked like Pajamas Media was going to be one more, with maybe something of a conservative leaning, but enough variety to not be a pure party-line effort.
Then they went and changed their name to Open Source Media, which has two problems: (1) Somebody else — Chris Lydon’s experiment in blogging-fueled radio — was already using the name. (So, for that matter, were JD Lasica and co.) (2) As far as I can tell, the outfit actually has less than nothing to do with open source media, open source software, or open source anything. It’s a blog network, and not even an open one.
Right now, the chief distinguishing trait of Open Source Media is that they’ve got a paid staff of editors who try to keep up with the news by writing little introduction paragraphs according to the following formula: First, provide a news lead; second, state that “Bloggers reacted quickly!” or “Bloggers weighed in!” Which is, you know, never going to be a stop-the-presses sort of observation.
Pajama people, this is going to get very old very quickly. And you’ll never do it as quickly or usefully as Memeorandum, anyway. Just lead with the blog posts themselves and you’ll feel much better in the morning.
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