What Grayson said, about the Creative Loafing “five shining swallowed pennies in the overflowing toilet bowl that is the Atlanta blogosphere” story:
This piece was just wrong on so many levels, Andy. But essentially, you missed the ENTIRE story. To single out a few blogs (and they’re all great blogs… that’s not the issue here) and give the readership the impression that those five blogs are somehow BLOG FUCKING ATLANTA is such a slap in the face to the entire social media community here.
The many bloggers, academics in citizen media like Leonard Witt at PJNET.com, podcasters, the techno entrepreneurs, videobloggers like Amani Channel for instance, who have worked long and hard, and those who have helped organized social media events and conferences like PodCamp Atlanta and SoCon07 were reduced to five blogs you want to make a teen style, MySpace style list over. You and Ken should be ashamed of yourselves for trivializing and reducing an entire new direction in media to five blogs with this “starter piece” on social media.
It’s just lazy, uninspired journalism really. Just look to the state of the music industry to see how long you have to “get it.”
While we’re on the subject of traditional media, I should mention that Rusty, Grayson, and I went to the Social Media Club event last night where a guy from the AJC and a guy from WSB were there to, ostensibly, converse about how they’re embracing social media. (Har har.) You can listen to our podcast review of the thing, if you’re so inclined.
And I didn’t even mention all the sexism. We tried to keep it to about a half hour. This was after the full-on rant session at Central City Tavern… be glad you got the “toned down” version. (Yes, it’s all relative.)
It’s hard to say what my favorite part of the night was, but I think I’ll have to go with WSB’s Steve Riley saying to me, “What you’re doing seems more… artistic.”
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*blank stare*
Obvious notes: 1) he has no idea what I’m doing; and 2) artistic? the hell?
Clue Phone ringing… it’s for you, Mr. Riley!
On a completely unrelated note, the next time I hear some asshole ask plaintively, “What crime is not a hate crime?” I’m going to verbally eviscerate them while assuring them that no, don’t worry, this is not a hate crime.
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Well if all curse words are hate speech to some, then all crimes are hate crimes to others. Other idiots, that is.
Seriously, Sara. You called the President a fucking idiot! How dare you! You’re JUST LIKE Ann Coulter!!
Amber, why do you hate America.
Holy cow, SpaceyG sure is riled up! I don’t get picked for a lot of reindeer games, so maybe the concept of some rag arbitrarily picking five blogs to highlight doesn’t strike me as so shocking. Being called a “dim” blogosphere did suck, considering those in dark houses shouldn’t throw uh, dim stones, (dim sum?), but still. I don’t want to be goody two shoes but how is “Fuck why the fuck aren’t you fucking fuckers fucking taking us more fucking seriously for fuck’s sake” going to work?
Shelby, to clarify just in case it wasn’t already excrutiatingly clear - no one (that I’ve talked to, anyway) has any problem w/ the fact that these 5 bloggers were profiled in CL. They deserve it! The article highlighted 5 excellent local blogs that deserve this recognition and more. The complaint is with the graf about the “dim” blogosphere and why it was necessary to include that.
Re: all the F-bombs… can’t speak for anyone else, but personally, I don’t give a fuck.
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