Chris Lydon, meet Blue Mass. Group
A whole ton of local bloggers will be heading out to Amherst June 28-July 1 for the Media Giraffe conference.
Chris Lydon will be leading a session titled Is it time to build the New England Common? As a founding member of the Center for the Easily Annoyed, I was struck by this question:
[W]hy don't we at the core of New England have something like the group blogs we admire -- the aggregative web power -- at the Huffington Post, say, or Daily Kos, or Talking Points Memo and now, TPM Cafe? Isn't there a way to build such a thing in Boston and Massachusetts while a very good governor's race is building steam?
Um, Chris? Three words for you: Blue Mass. Group. I realize you didn't have anything to do with it, which makes it suspect in your eyes, but you really might want to check it out (as I thought you did, based on your CommonWealth article). Might even give you some ideas for that "Blogging of the Governor" site I bet you want to set up.
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Oh So Common
Well, maybe, but BMG doesn't offer Lydon's puffy self-congratulations. Then again, maybe it does, with its stats and we-got-it-first posts, but he has the I-know-better-I'm-smarter thing down and BMG doesn't.
This smacks of NIH attitude, but I'll still go to his session. Perhaps David can be there chanting,"Too Late, Too late." P->
He knows the blogs.
That's not quite fair to Lydon regarding us. He can speak for himself, but I wouldn't call him "suspicious" of us, or the blogging community in general -- quite the contrary.