Comments on: OTB Side Blogs

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:36:33 +0000

Sounds almost like a Wiz of an idea!

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:48:18 +0000

Jay: Indeed! I actually talked to Kevin about it in person the other night.

I borrowed the sideblog idea from Kevin, although I had a whole series of niche blogs out on Blogspot for quite some time until my account mysteriously went away.

OTB Sports was at least "original" when I came up with the idea a month ago but by the time I got it implemented, Kevin had rebranded his defunct "SportsBlog" as another in the Wizbang network.

Blogging, like the NFL, is a copycat game. People naturally take ideas that others have used elsewhere and run with them. The Beltway Traffic Jam was more-or-less original but was so often copied as to be indistinguishable. Conversely, I copied caption contest idea from many places but, through attrition (and good work by Rodney in running them) wound up having one of the more prominent.

Probably the biggest difference between the OTB and Wizbang sideblogs will be that my author list will be smaller, as I don't envision opening it up to all comers. We'll see how that works out in the longer run.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:36:37 +0000

Steve:

Anywhere you want!

Keep blogging at OTB main.

If you would like a beat or beats (LA, California, business, etc.) for OTB News, it's yours.

If you would like a beat for OTB Sports, it's yours.

If you want to do some stuff at Gone Hollywood, that's cool, too.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:31:35 +0000

So James, since I can't access my steveverdon.com e-mail at work....where do you want me blogging?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:26:34 +0000

Thanks Eric--That's something I need to fix.

By: Eric J

Eric J — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:23:19 +0000

As of right now, the RSS feeds for your side blogs are identical to the main blog.

By: http://www.elephantsordonkeys.com

http://www.elephantsordonkeys.com — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

News and musing on scifi TV, movies books and such.” He joins a growing trend in the blogosphere with this subdivision although, as he notes, there has been some debate as to whether it is a positive one. I created the OTB side blogs, including the defunct OTB News, back in March, to post material that I didn’t think would interest the core politics and national security affairs readership. I still cross-post the occasional sports or pop culture piece here, as always, if I think