Deep Jive Interests

One could go on at length with another meta-blogging post about what blogging is or is not; however, for Nick Gawker to say that he is moving “beyond” blogging is either a bit of arrogance or a touch of grandstanding or, more likely, a bit of both.

Its true, he’s changing the format of his blogs so that rather than riff on existing content (as I do), he is exploring actual reporting; he is scheduling posts around particular time tables; he is going to include a splashier home page;  and he’s going o try and separate certain kinds of content.

But is this really “beyond” blogging?  He’s still, for the most part, displaying articles in a reverse chronological order, isn’t he?  And he’s still probably playing fast and loose with the facts with an eye to churn and speed isn’t he?  And he surely has some kind of ongoing mechanism to interact on a post-by-post basis with his audience, right?

Goodness … from the wrong perspective, its almost like Nick Denton wants to draw attention to how he’s moving away from Kubrick to some other fancy theme, with a bit of  an editorial redirection.