The Open Source Media Plot Thickens
Posted on November 21, 2005
Remember the whole controversy of the name Open Source Media? It looks like the plot has thickened. Take a look at TTLB Ecosystem. See number 21? The one that says Open Source Media? Follow the link, and it leads you to Don Surber’s Blog, or, err…Open Source Media! LOL! Then read this post. He makes a lot of good points, as a matter of fact I have tried a few times to email Roger L. Simon myself, without reply. He says…
Am I jealous? Hell yea. I’d love to get a jillion hits a day.
But worse, this is chilling. It sucks the oxygen out of the room.
Despite its early stumbles, this baby looks headed to be the next Microsoft, AOL or Google.
And already it is acting like the MSM — making bogus claims, making errors, correcting them and then having to correct the correction.
Well, I don’t have it out for OSM like Don Surber does, but I did find his post about it amusing, and in many spots…I must say I agree. But I found it absolutely hillarious that he stole their name.
Hogs on Ice unloads on OSM too. As a matter of fact if you do a search on technorati, you will find a huge amount of negative reactions.
Lawshawn Barber thinks people are just jealous. Arguing With Sign Posts disagrees with that. I’m not jealous, but I agree with her. I think many bloggers look at it like a closed club, only for the elite chosen ones. I think if OSM wants to survive, they need to work on changing this image. What I think the blogosphere is about is an open community of communication. That is the route I’m going.
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Jay I thought Don Subers link was a hoot.
As I stated in the previous thread you had on this subject, I still don’t get the whole thing. If Don is correct, and e-mails aren’t returned and the lack of comments on the site are two things that bother me greatly. What exactly is OSM, another conservative news site?
What I think the blogosphere is about is an open community of communication.
Indeed. Honestly, I haven’t the time to be jealous of OSM, and a lot of what I’m reading is not the sort of thing that is borne of jealousy, but of concern (with the notable exception of Dennis the Peasant). I *want* the concept to succeed - at least the part about highlighting good stuff from the blogosphere. The monopoly advertising part I’m more wary of, but whatever.
The mainstream media became corrupt and biased because (1) their business model encourages pandering to advertisers for revenue and (2) over the years they became a closed elitest club with no capacity for mutual vetting. The openness and interactiveness of the Blogosphere came like fresh air as an antidote to this stranglehold on the sharing of news and opinion.
It seems that OSM has adopted a business model that sacrifices the gains of citizen journalism and attempts to replicate the worst moribund features of the MSM business model. They appear to be trying to structure their own stranglehold on readership, driven by greed for advertising revenue.
Worse, they are acting like a bunch of newly rich hillbillies in their profligacy with venture capital, and very publicly tripping over their own egos.
Ultimately, the Blogosphere is about the richness of the ideas and the broadness and INCLUSIVENESS of sharing. They are going in exactly the opposite direction.
This may have one salutary effect. The Instapundit will incur a lot of disfavor, and he has long since stopped being an asset to the sphere as his blog is just a lot of links and “heh’s”.
It will make room for Jay to move up the ladder and replace him. And Jay is VALUE ADDED. Jay and friends understand what the Blogosphere is really about.
Usually a collection of opinion writers backed by advertising revenue is called a “magazine.” The only thing new here is the pretensions.