Cobb: AOL's Blogging, Ya Herd?

August 08, 2003

AOL's Blogging, Ya Herd?

Yglesias [reports that Steve Dunn ]suggests that AOL's entry into the Blogosphere will death blows to the superior gravity of Instapundit and AndrewSullivan. I beg to differ, simply.

One. I never read either of them and I don't miss a trick. It has been a very rare occasion when the second-order blogs [like Matt] on my list have deferred totally to their style of writing. Instapundit and Sullivan are provocateurs only of reader's habit.

Two. The last thing AOL 'revolutionized' was the browser world. Before that, it was USENET. You can judge the results for yourself.

The AOL herd is of bovine proportions and intellectual substance. In general, they live on the feed lot. Every once in a while, AOL will add a new technology that gives them a bit more freedom to roam the open plains of the Internet. They stampede a pre-trailblazed path into minivan navigability. That's a good thing because AOL supplies enough heads to justify non-niche marketing and that validates keeping the Internet alive for unprincipled capitalists and others late to the cluetrain. But ain't no siren calls coming out of that herd.

We will see a whole lot of stuff that will look like the first generation of Blogger, but with shiny buttons. YKYMF

Ed. Thanks to ZM

Posted by mbowen at August 8, 2003 12:02 PM

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Cobb, you should have read Matt's post more carefully. He is citing Steve Dunn on Instapundit and Sullivan, not offering his own predictions. In fact, Matt refuses to offer his own predictions (being the good little reader of Karl Popper that he is). So, please don't attribute quotes or claims to people that are not theirs (especially when you are critiquing them).

Posted by: Zach Mears at August 8, 2003 12:42 PM

I stand corrected. My harangue was more directed to AOL than Matt. It is the second-order bloggers like Matt, rather than the superstars that I find most valuable. Correction forthcoming.

Posted by: Cobb at August 8, 2003 12:54 PM

Thanks for making the correction, Cobb. I like your blog and would not want to see its reputation damaged by misascribed quotes.

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