Friday, June 23, 2006

Meta

Because everyone loves these posts, picking up where Garance leaves off it's time to acknowledge a few things. First, lots of bloggers and blog readers have something against the nebulous club of "A-List bloggers." I'm not sure who is exactly in that club, but I imagine it's fair to assume it includes Markos and myself among others.


There are a variety of reasons people seem to like to get their hate on at us, especially Markos, and I'll try to spell them out as I understand them without bothering to argue with them.

1) A-list bloggers have shitty blogs that no one should read but people just read them because they've been around for so long.

2) A-list bloggers are supporting the wrong candidates/causes. They are doing X, but they should be doing Y.

3) A-list bloggers suck up all the attention from better bloggers who everyone should be reading.

4) A-list bloggers end up representing the "netroots" but they shouldn't.

5) A-list bloggers aren't generous enough with their links and should be providing more publicity for other bloggers.

6) A-list bloggers are stupid and they're ugly and nobody likes them.

Anyway, I'm sure there are more reasons. I won't bother going into more detail except to say that I do find it truly bizarre that whatever people think of Markos personally or the Daily Kos generally, he actually gets surprisingly little credit for the fact that he's provided a platform which allows literally anyone to reach immense numbers of readers per day in an almost entirely community-run platform. I find that rather weird.


Okay, time for cat blogging.