New Blogger at Sports Illustrated

[Lugnuts]

Sounds like si.com is going in an interesting new direction....

Yes... Kind of like when they hired Jenn Sterger to blog. Captivating. Exciting. So cutting-edge.

(Waving back at Dangerously.)

 

[Brian Cook]

They've also hired Holly Anderson from EDSBS to run a college football blog. Staples is pumped by this development. Holly's excellent -- SI has made a lot of good young hires lately with the money they didn't spend on Rick Reilly recycling columns from ten years ago.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I found that a lot of blogger work is expounding upon items that would be brites in old-school newspapers and adding attempts at cleverness/snark. Yahoo is a particular practicer of this. And hits doesn't necessarily equal news.

 

[Lugnuts]

They've also hired Holly Anderson from EDSBS to run a college football blog. Staples is pumped by this development.

Bunny. Pancake. Head.

 

[ringer]

The new blogger's bio (pasted verbatim below from his/her website) is startlingly unprofessional for an SI employee. I would never hire this person to represent my company.

http://cowbell.typepad.com/about.html

One-Line Bio

You want tennis? Oh I'll forkin' give you some tennis.

Biography

C Note was introduced to the lovely taste of coffee at a very young age. During her father's poker night at the age of five she wandered into the kitchen, rummaged around the refrigerator, and stumbled upon a beautifully plump red thai pepper. Having seen her father eat these lovely peppers with such glee, she decided to "be just like daddy" ....

 

[lcjjdnh]

I found that a lot of blogger work is expounding upon items that would be brites in old-school newspapers and adding attempts at cleverness/snark. Yahoo is a particular practicer of this. And hits doesn't necessarily equal news.

And a lot of work "bloggers" do is much better-and different-than anything you'll read in a newspaper. Brian (above), for instance, provides in-depth analysis readers crave. Just as there are good and bad reporters, there are good and bad bloggers. No need to generalize.

 

[Lugnuts]

provides in-depth analysis readers crave.

Nail meets head. That's what readers are dying for-- analysis. There's not enough analysis on the web, or on TV, frankly. If newspapers did more in-depth analysis, they'd have more readers.

To sum up...

Blogosphere: Needs More Analysis.

 

[lcjjdnh]

provides in-depth analysis readers crave.

Nail meets head. That's what readers are dying for-- analysis. There's not enough analysis on the web, or on TV, frankly. If newspapers did more in-depth analysis, they'd have more readers.

To sum up...

Blogosphere: Needs More Analysis.

provides in-depth analysis readers crave.

Nail meets head. That's what readers are dying for-- analysis. There's not enough analysis on the web, or on TV, frankly. If newspapers did more in-depth analysis, they'd have more readers.

To sum up...

Blogosphere: Needs More Analysis.

Unlike most of you on this board, there are a number of terrific bloggers that don't treat their readers with complete disdain. Rather than provide the vapid commentary you might find in the newspaper or on TV (not surprisingly, often offered by hack newspaper writers), they offer intelligent insights to a dedicated community of fans. Brian, as mentioned, breaks down every play in every Michigan football game. Alan Sepinwall-a former Star Ledger reporter-writes detailed analysis about every episode of a large number of critically acclaimed TV shows. Their dedication has also led to the creation of vibrant commenting communities on their websites. After a game or TV, fans want a forum to relive, dissect, analyze, etc. everything that happened; the really great bloggers provide this for them.

 

[Boom_70]

How long before new blog kicks the bucket.

 

[Versatile]

Are we still on the bloggers vs. everyone else kick at this point? It's 2011.

 

[SF_Express]

Are we still on the bloggers vs. everyone else kick at this point? It's 2011.

Yeah, that's kind of my point. Doesn't really matter anymore.