MyTorygraph
If you thought blogging had already gone mass market before, what do you think of the Telegraph offering free blog hosting? It is technically far ahead of the Guardian's Comment is Free "blog". Which always struck me as(a) not a blogInteresting to see how it develops and what the Telegraph thinks it will achieve by offering free MyTelegraph branded blogs to the masses. They get traffic, extra advertising revenue and you get a simple and restrictive blog in their gated community. Not sure how appealing that is as a proposition. Probably a place to start. Readers will have to invest a lot of time in finding writers they want to read and the noise to signal ratio will inevitably be high.
(b) a mish-mash of variable quality writers.
Until now the Telegraph's blogging journalists have not been overwhelmed with comments and although Little and Large seems occasionally interesting, most of the blogs seem dead. (The giveaway is those digg et al voting buttons gathering dust and merely serving to emphasise that nobody diggs them.)
If an amateur citizen journalist blogger on MyTelegraph becomes a hit, how will the journos react? They are not exactly setting a tough standard to beat...
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Cool.
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/droogie/
Imagine being Dom Joly.
http://www.domjoly.tv/
He's trying so hard at blogging but getting almost nil comments.
Visit him, take the piss.
As for the Telegraph offering free blogs ... I should think a lot of angry people in Tunbridge Wells will be happy now.
Did Iain Dale advise Cameron on the redesign? He is, after all, the expert.
Guido, you are hereby invited to be a judge in this haiku competition on My Telegraph.
Of course, any of your readers are welcome to enter....just click my name to get to the competition.
10:19 AM, May 11, 2007
Morning Mr Tim Ireland
Dear Sir
I already have an ocean of drivel to search each day, hoping for some pearl of information or maybe wisdom within your organ and others. Now you are adding to that engulfment in the futile hope that if you give free space, it will save you from the proprietorial obligation to finance investigative journalism and independent analysis and exposition. I remain, inevitably yours, Angry
Disagree about commentisfree. Different thing entirely - rather than just one person spouting off it's a debate, and more often than not of a very high level.
"They are not exactly setting a tough standard to beat..." - do you mean the Comments (Mr Dale excepted) and Leader writing is a load of lazy, knee-jerk, neocon infested rubbish?
So, what's the copyright policy on the Torygraph? I'm out of date but the last time I checked everything belonged to Conrad Black. Actually, if you ask him, everything still does, and he wants interest paid.
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