Comments on: Will’s formula for dynamite http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/05/25/wills-formula-for-dynamite/ by Jeff Jarvis Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:48:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stephen Downes http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/05/25/wills-formula-for-dynamite/#comment-350362 Stephen Downes Fri, 25 May 2007 13:30:47 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/05/25/wills-formula-for-dynamite/#comment-350362 I can handle the drive-by Al Gore muggings and the 'Is Barak Black enough?' debacle (it may be removed from the site, but it lives on in RSS). But being required to watch obnoxious animated RSS banner ads in support of this nonsense tests my patience too much. Enough. My next act will be to terminate my RSS subscription. I'm out of here. I can handle the drive-by Al Gore muggings and the ‘Is Barak Black enough?’ debacle (it may be removed from the site, but it lives on in RSS).

But being required to watch obnoxious animated RSS banner ads in support of this nonsense tests my patience too much.

Enough. My next act will be to terminate my RSS subscription. I’m out of here.

]]> By: Steve Boriss http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/05/25/wills-formula-for-dynamite/#comment-350357 Steve Boriss Fri, 25 May 2007 12:25:56 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/05/25/wills-formula-for-dynamite/#comment-350357 It's interesting that he is placing such hope in "the new kind of investigative reporting that’s now being pioneered on blogs like Talking Points Memo (TPM)." This type of reporting requires a level of funding that will be unavailable in an online commercial environment in which few users will pay subscription fees, and where it will be much more cost-efficient to get this info from whistleblowers than reporter-investigators. I suspect that to find the type of investigative reporting he is hoping for, we'll have to visit web sites that have some kind of axe to grind (partisan, think tanks, etc.) backed financially by those who share a view or self-interest. Moveon.org and Newsbusters come to mind. Personally, I'd also put TPM in the category of a partisan web site, and it would not surprise me if we learned that it is backed by partisan money. It’s interesting that he is placing such hope in “the new kind of investigative reporting that’s now being pioneered on blogs like Talking Points Memo (TPM).” This type of reporting requires a level of funding that will be unavailable in an online commercial environment in which few users will pay subscription fees, and where it will be much more cost-efficient to get this info from whistleblowers than reporter-investigators. I suspect that to find the type of investigative reporting he is hoping for, we’ll have to visit web sites that have some kind of axe to grind (partisan, think tanks, etc.) backed financially by those who share a view or self-interest. Moveon.org and Newsbusters come to mind. Personally, I’d also put TPM in the category of a partisan web site, and it would not surprise me if we learned that it is backed by partisan money.

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