Yesterday, my colleague Paul broached the veil of secrecy about just how bloggers blog, outlining the process by which right-wing and left-wing bloggers generate their postings. It was pretty good, but it neglected the left-wingers’ Plan C:
When everything else fails, rip off another blogger’s work.
(Hat tip to David Anderson, who probably won’t appreciate it.)
J.
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The amount of profanity in that post by Atrios makes it practically unreadable. Gratuitous profanity is one of the big things that seperates the lightweights from the pros. Atrios might have a lot of readers, but he is a lightweight.
Hey Jay, whatever floats your boat. But be careful, Duncan (Atrios), did not do the plagerizing it was Media Matters, but Duncan defended it. Also, the profanity was from an email he recieved.
I’m not the sharpest blog knife in the blog drawer, but … what? I read the post on Duncan’s site, and I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Is there some kind of back-story that one might need to know in order to get the joke?
Yeah, Jeff — it’s simple, the bankety-blankin blanks blankin blanked his blankin blog and didn’t blankin give the blankin guy the blankin credit he blankin deserved!! So blank them!
Get it now?
Ron is a member of my Progressive Blogger Alliance Jeff. He did some great investigative work on a story. Media Matters lifted some of his material without attribution and Duncan defended the theft. Ron was pissed. He sent Duncan an email, Duncan dissed him by running the email and kind of making fun of him. I blasted Duncan for it. Duncan came back with some pissy assed comments, and I used it as a basis for pointing out how fucked some of the big Lefty Blogs are. My post, which Jay linked to does a good job of sorting things out.
If I received an e-mail like that, I’d have no choice but to post it and make fun of the author, too. I would be, like, a biological imperative.
I don’t care who’s profanity it was – it is still unreadable and unnecessary. I hate going into a blog and being assaulted by these gutter words.
Sometimes, the exact and proper curse word is exactly the thing to use, but streams of profanity is just an utter waste of time to read, and it obscures whatever underlying message is supposed to be there.
Thanks for clearing that up David — please feel free to post the oncoming blank-you-too comment from Ron
Actually, after Ron calmed down he was pretty cool about it.
Excellent endorsement, David — anyone with a sense of humor is entitled to a bit of slack.