Tuesday, April 26, 2005
MLBlogs.com
Six Apart, after introducing Friendster blogs, now introduces MLBlogs, a tool for blogging about MLB. OmMalik - who had the scoop on MLBlogs.com being registered - sounds happy, BusinessLogs is not impressed. (Incidentally, I had no idea that baseballblogs.org was associated with Markos Zuniga, but I guess I must've missed the Times article.
Edit: as you'll see in the comments, I've been informed that baseballblogs.org is NOT associated with Kos.)
While MLB's benefit is clear (revenue stream, developing a community), Six Apart also seems to benefit from the co-branding - now they're not just a generalist host like Blogspot or Blogs.com, they have specialised blogs like this and the Friendster ones.
Still, I'm not really sure what improvement MLBlogs will have over regular Typepad Sox blogs, judging from the page. They did sign up Tommy Lasorda - Lord knows if he'll maintain the blogging frequency - and some others, and some broadcasters and groundskeepers, but no players yet - nothing like Jody Gerut's blog. We'll see. Right now it's basically costless to maintain a Sox blog if you use Blogspot - as lots of other Sox bloggers do - so I wonder what kind of new additions to the Sox blogosphere the development will bring.
Six Apart, after introducing Friendster blogs, now introduces MLBlogs, a tool for blogging about MLB. OmMalik - who had the scoop on MLBlogs.com being registered - sounds happy, BusinessLogs is not impressed. (Incidentally, I had no idea that baseballblogs.org was associated with Markos Zuniga, but I guess I must've missed the Times article.
Edit: as you'll see in the comments, I've been informed that baseballblogs.org is NOT associated with Kos.)
While MLB's benefit is clear (revenue stream, developing a community), Six Apart also seems to benefit from the co-branding - now they're not just a generalist host like Blogspot or Blogs.com, they have specialised blogs like this and the Friendster ones.
Still, I'm not really sure what improvement MLBlogs will have over regular Typepad Sox blogs, judging from the page. They did sign up Tommy Lasorda - Lord knows if he'll maintain the blogging frequency - and some others, and some broadcasters and groundskeepers, but no players yet - nothing like Jody Gerut's blog. We'll see. Right now it's basically costless to maintain a Sox blog if you use Blogspot - as lots of other Sox bloggers do - so I wonder what kind of new additions to the Sox blogosphere the development will bring.
Hey Daryl --
Actually baseballblogs.org (and related sites: sportsblogs.org, basketballblogs.org, hockeyblogs.org and footballblogs.org) are not related to Markos Zuniga.
I've had these sites operating for a while now and they just launched theirs.
Because of the name that they chose, they is going to be lots of confusion coming up I believe. :(
-- Todd Muchmore
Actually baseballblogs.org (and related sites: sportsblogs.org, basketballblogs.org, hockeyblogs.org and footballblogs.org) are not related to Markos Zuniga.
I've had these sites operating for a while now and they just launched theirs.
Because of the name that they chose, they is going to be lots of confusion coming up I believe. :(
-- Todd Muchmore
Yeah, I've been listed on baseballblogs.org for a while, I was kind of surprised that this was only in the news now... Thanks for the clarification! I'll edit my post to note.
Look, I know it's a free country and all, and I know there will probably never be any good, populist, pure grassroots thing someone doesn't completely ruin by trying to cash in on at some point, but that doesn't mean i can't be depressed when it happens.
so now some dingus with a mastercard is going to become the OFCIL MBL BOLFGER!! and the bloggers who've been working on their sites for years independently can go fuck themselves.
excellent.
so now some dingus with a mastercard is going to become the OFCIL MBL BOLFGER!! and the bloggers who've been working on their sites for years independently can go fuck themselves.
excellent.
It may lose steam fast. I remember MSN's MySpaces launching with much fanfare, and I can't remember the last time I saw an MSN blog.
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