It’s official: Pajamas Media, has now been launched but they’ve axed the old name for the new name Open Source Media (TMV doesn’t even OWN pajamas).
But a new controversy has erupted over whether they’ve usurped someone else’s name. Read what the original Open Source Media has to say about that. Then explore the many links on this post and you’ll see lots of comment on this aspect of it.
In case you’ve been on Mars, OSM is a new infoventure that seeks to take a group of bloggers and offer some of their content on a site plus make them attractive to advertisers as a group. They initially put feelers out to a lot of weblogs, sought confidentiality agreements while they worked out some details, then invited some and notably did not invite some others (our site, alas, was not selected to participate). It’s already coming under criticism for being heavily-weighted to mostly-conservative blogs versus a truly ideologically diverse organization.
There’s a ton of reaction to this new era.
The MUST-READ is James Joyner’s post HERE based on a survey he sent out to various bloggers — including yours truly. We won’t repeat ourselves. Read his link.
Then check out Jeff Jarvis’s thoughts HERE. And, importantly, Donklephant‘s Justin Gardner’s thoughtful piece here.
UPDATE: Ann Althouse has a brutal take on it (and some OSM members were not pleased with her).
UPDATE II: Dean Esmay steps back, looks at it and notes a few things.
UPDATE III: And another controversy along the way….
A CROSS-SECTION OF OTHER VOICES DISCUSSING OSM
Atlas Shrugs, TBogg,Roger Simon, Kesher Talk, Classical Values, Chicagoboyz, Daily Kos, Furry Happy Puppy, Paradox1x, Now That’s Progress, Krempasky.com, Bradblog, Literal Barrage, qando, La Shawn Barber, Right Wing News, The Politeburo Diktat, Steven Taylor, Tech PR Gems,
Scott Ferguson, Harshly Mellow, Eric Siegmund, Blanton’s and Ashton’s, Blogs4God, Middle Earth Journal, James Wolcott, Kentucky Packrat, Backseat Drivers, Metacomments, Riehl World View, Phillipine Politics 04, Dadahead, From The Grandstand, Daily Pundit, 8763 Wonderland, fbihop, Crooks And Liars
PS: OSM’s kick off speaker was the New York Times’ Judith Miller, a fitting “kick off” speaker since the Times announced the now controversial reporter is leaving them by (supposedly) mutual agreement.
Will OSM’s next big guest speaker be the Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.