Stress of Maintaining Blogs Takes Its Toll

3 Responses to Stress of Maintaining Blogs Takes Its Toll

1. J. Clifford says:

   4/6/2008 at 10:56 am

   Jim, I know you’re writing this sarcastically, and your point is well taken. As I discovered on Friday, just by doing a little bit of looking around on activist web sites, there’s a lot of interesting, under-reported information about political activist events that’s not being reported on elsewhere.

   All it takes is tuning out the MSNBC-CNN-Fox echo chamber, and opening your own eyes. There’s a lot of good work that bloggers can do, rather than just copying news that someone else has reported on already.

   We do our share of commenting on the big news of the day, and I think that doing so is a valid thing for independent writers with blogs to do. However, we make sure to mix in original content and information that’s not available through the big news channels. I think that’s a responsibility.

   To have the New York Times write about independent news and information web sites is just not credible. They’ve been biased from the beginning, and for good reason. The establishment news operations have often had their credibility undermined by independent online writers. How they must long for the days when the only backtalk there was from the public was through letters to the editor… that could be selected and edited before publication.

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2. Iroquois says:

   4/7/2008 at 9:40 pm

   Does that include eye stress? What’s with the new appearance? The main posts written in letters so big they jump out at you. The widgets so tiny they fog up your bifocals. I don’t know whether to increase or decrease my text size.

   And where’s all that weird prose about paths in the masthead? I liked that.

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3. Fluffy says:

   4/8/2008 at 2:26 pm

   yoos dont no stres. wen yoos chazd by dawgs al dey, den yoos ken tel me bout stres.

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