New Blogs in the Burg

Maybe it’s too soon to judge.  I should give them more time to “get it”…this blogging deal, I mean but the signs aren’t promising so far. Our local paper has finally started a blog section on their web site, launching 5 new blogs since December 8^th.

Recalling some e-mail exchanges I have had with one of their general assignment reporters about the role of blogs in journalism, the wailing and gnashing of teeth must be deafening down there on Amelia Street. As painful as it might be to admit I was wrong, the product I see is pretty disappointing so far. 

Of the five blogs they have so far, two show nano-promise. The other three are more like after-thoughts as in “Oops, forgot to throw something up on the blog today! I better pound out a few lines to post.”

They seem to be working on a way to subscribe to the blogs through RSS feeds but there are no feeds that Blog Lines seems to recognize. For me, that means I have to wade through multiple ad-bloated pages to get to the blogs.

Comments on the blog postings? Forget about them unless you want to register as a user. I'll give it up to the "register monster" for some content but not for this.