Dumblogger
Is there something about MSnbc that makes some writers particularly dumb about blogging? I just heard Chris Matthews say (as he does every night) “if you want to blog, go on over to Hardblogger at …”
Then you have:
The bloggers who follow technology consist of a particularly evolved community. The alphas, or “A-listers,” as they call themselves, commonly cross-link to one another, with the effect of having one of their comments amplified and commented on.
Ooooh. You say these “A-listers” cross link one another? And then people comment on their comments? Wow. I can hardly wait until the rest of the blogosphere is as evolved.
In the tech conferences you can often spot them in person, clustering toward the wall so they can keep their laptops plugged in. No matter where they are, they maintain a running conversation with their unseen audience, which can be as big as 20,000 visitors on a good day.
If that’s a good day then these “A-listers” are a bunch of punks. Atrios and Kos get that in an hour.
There is, of course, plenty of blog action in the tech sector but it is a tiny specialized corner compared to the much more highly evolved political blogosphere. But then, Newsweek probably thinks that Chris Matthews is a real blogger. Or rather they think that anyone reading Chris Matthews’ “blog” is a blogger.