Comments on: Open Left and MyDD, One Year Later http://www.blogpi.net/open-left-and-mydd-one-year-later Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:15:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: O Captain! My Captain! Rise Up and Read the Blogs at Blog P.I. http://www.blogpi.net/open-left-and-mydd-one-year-later/comment-page-1#comment-139779 O Captain! My Captain! Rise Up and Read the Blogs at Blog P.I. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:02:35 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/open-left-and-mydd-one-year-later#comment-139779 <p>[...] almost the inverse what I’ve said about how MyDD didn’t miss a beat when its top two writers decamped for a new website: as long as it continues to fulfill its [...]</p> [...] almost the inverse what I’ve said about how MyDD didn’t miss a beat when its top two writers decamped for a new website: as long as it continues to fulfill its [...]

]]> By: Simon Owens http://www.blogpi.net/open-left-and-mydd-one-year-later/comment-page-1#comment-139568 Simon Owens Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:25:25 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/open-left-and-mydd-one-year-later#comment-139568 <p>I poked around the Open Left site after I conducted an interview with Stoller and wasn't all that impressed with what I saw. Sites like Open Left and MyDD strike me as little more than Daily Kos clones -- what someone labeled the "mullet" site (in that they have star bloggers that get front page access while they appease thousands of smaller bloggers by letting them play in the back yard).</p> <p>I'd be much more interested in seeing traffic comparisons between sites like Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos. Kos used to be the Supreme King, but now that Huffinton and TPM have turned into legitimate news organizations with real reporting, I'd like to see if they've left Kos in their dust.</p> <p>Also, Atrios. The guy's a shitty one-line blogger and I've noticed that his advertising/traffic hasn't been doing so swell.</p> <p>I analyzed <a href="http://bloggasm.com/readership-of-major-liberal-blogs-declined-in-2007-while-conservative-blog-readership-increased" rel="nofollow">some blog traffic numbers</a> back in January but I haven't had time to return and see how things have changed. Maybe I should do that soon.</p> I poked around the Open Left site after I conducted an interview with Stoller and wasn’t all that impressed with what I saw. Sites like Open Left and MyDD strike me as little more than Daily Kos clones — what someone labeled the “mullet” site (in that they have star bloggers that get front page access while they appease thousands of smaller bloggers by letting them play in the back yard).

I’d be much more interested in seeing traffic comparisons between sites like Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos. Kos used to be the Supreme King, but now that Huffinton and TPM have turned into legitimate news organizations with real reporting, I’d like to see if they’ve left Kos in their dust.

Also, Atrios. The guy’s a shitty one-line blogger and I’ve noticed that his advertising/traffic hasn’t been doing so swell.

I analyzed some blog traffic numbers back in January but I haven’t had time to return and see how things have changed. Maybe I should do that soon.

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