Friday , March 29 2024

Blog of the Nation

With blogs turning up in the mainstream media virtually every day, it astounds me that there are still vast swaths of the population that haven’t heard of them. So the more coverage the merrier, evne if it’s the same story over and over again. NPR’s Talk of the Nation did a piece on blogging today, and speaking of poeple you’ve never heard of, I hadn’t heard of anyone who participated in the show other than the very cool Dan Gillmor, who has been working on a book – We the Media, that comes out ast the end of August – and the stunningly uncool Wonkette.

If you read Blogcritics, you won’t hear much new on the show, but it was fun to hear callers discuss their own blogs – including a very persuasive argument for the “what I did today” subgenre of blogs, which I have tended to avoid scrupulously.

It was amusing when at one point in the show talk turned to the pressures of the 24-hour news cycle, and host Neal Conan thought they were talking about the pressure to FIND something to write about round the clock – Gillmor was quick to inform him the problem was not ever FINDING ENOUGH to write about, but the constant pressure of having far TOO MUCH to write about and never enough time to write about it.

The audio for the show will be up at about 6pm ET today.

About Eric Olsen

Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014. Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted. Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.

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