Posted on 10/17/2010 8:22:55 AM PDT by stillafreemind
A thread on Barbara Billingsley has been pulled because they called it a blog. It was taken from Associated Content that was bought by Yahoo. How is that considered a blog?
I read what I read. People seemed to be enjoying the article. What gives? Free Republic started as a blog, correct? How can Yahoo news be a blog?
I don't try to break rules here. I've been around for quite a while. I'm curious..that's all. Thanks.
No.
Not that I'm aware of.
I certainly hope not!
FR was around long before the concepts of blogs.
As for yet another Barbara Billingsly posts- there have been so many in the past day, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PTBs here started moving them to blogs just to keep the news category clean for real news.
The same thing has happened to me. Don't take it personally.
I just glanced over at this Associated Content- it looks to be just another overrated ‘open’ blog like the Examiner blogs where everyone can sign up- they just make their format look a little more professional than most blogs but it isn’t exactly a news source.
...also, Associated Content seems to be a pay-per-click blog like Examiner..
Browse the collective knowledge of 400,000 individual Contributors:
If they've got it set up so that any goofball and his drooling brother
Cletus can "contribute" I wouldn't think much of it as a source.
No it did not start as a blog.
FR was never a blog. It predated that concept.
Thanks! I hadn’t paid much attention to it as I don’t go there.
It is like those ‘library of poetry’ vanity press publishers who can make anyone feel like they are an actual published authors when really, they reel in suckers to stroke their ego.
I don't recall it as being much of a "blog" (a term that wasn't around then), but more of a resource... While some blogs are news aggregation sites, not all news aggregation sites are blogs. FR was the latter, in my recollection.
It didn’t get pulled.
I’m picturing a blogpimp with a huge stable of bloggers,
and the pimp dresses in corporate attire instead of Burgundy silk.
Same biz, different marketing.
Then came the lawsuits and it was just one thing after another ~ but never mind, the custom written software allows FR to handle more stuff with more users than is possible with anything else.
it started as a “I hate Clinton” blog, I believe.
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it started as a “I hate Clinton” blog, I believe.
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