GOING JOHN GALT ON PJ TV

"Going John Galt on PJTV.com."

MIDWEEK 9 POST

I will try to stick to a regular posting schedule by designating every day with a specific topic / theme / category. I want to do this in order to get some guidance and support for my blogging. But I have to "warn" you that the publishing of posts will still be pretty flexible due the situation on a particular day.

I will start to send entries to the Objectivist Roundup again. I will continue to participate in the Friday Ark with photos of Morris the cat and sending yummy stuff to the Carnival of the Recipes. Yesterday was Pancake Day in America and here in Sweden you eat something called "semla".


Real Lent food: Semla and a cup of tea.

Talking about tea, read Roger Kimball's post, My favorite American, on Rick Santelli.

PAJAMAS MEDIA AND BLOGADS

I have had Pajamas Media ads on my blog for a long time, but I took it down after I updated my template. At one point I earned some money but later on my blog didn't made the cut according to the new traffic requirements. My blog is belonging to the long tail of the blogosphere, as described in Justin Gardner's post, More On Pajamas Media Business Model:

Now, according to PJM’s own list of network bloggers, there are only 60 sites in the network. And probably only 20% of them hit that 1,000,000 impressions per quarter. Basically, a good rule of thumb is that you usually get 80% of your traffic from 20% of your posts/site/etc., so let’s just apply that reasoning here to PJM’s stated 29,000,000 cumulative impressions a month. (Donklephant, 02/02/09.)

Here are some other posts on the situation:

• The Obligatory PJ Media Post - Balloon Juice.
• Economy Hits Pajamas Media: Pajamas Media Ad Network To Shut Down As Bigger Focus To Be On Internet TV - The Moderate Voice.
• Fellow Liberals Gloat; Conservatives Sniffle As Pajamas Media Goes Broke And Goes For More Future Brokeness - The Gun Toting Liberal.
• Pajamas Media Shutting Down Ad Network (Leaves Conservative Bloggers In The Poor House) - The Blog Herald.
• RIP, Pajamas Media Ad Network - Winds of Change.Net.

During the whole time, I kept my BlogAds space. Most of the PJ network bloggers signed exclusively up for ads served via Pajamas Media ad network, but according to the deal, you could keep your other advertising sources at a certain level, if you wanted. Here is my pitch on BlogAds:

Join the Second Renaissance! Reach international readers who are rational individuals and defenders of the Western world.

Support CAPITALI$M: Advertise @ EGO!

BLOGOSPHERE VERSUS MSM

What is your take on the article, Oh, grow up, in The Economist? The author states the following: "Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream."

The rest of the world may well have missed the unfolding of his tragedy. Behind it, however, is a bigger trend. Blogging has entered the mainstream, which—as with every new medium in history—looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death. To the earliest practitioners, over a decade ago, blogging was the regular posting of text updates, and later photos and videos, about themselves and their thoughts to a few friends and family members. Today lots of internet users do this, only they may not think of it as blogging. Instead, they update their profile pages on Facebook, MySpace or other social networks.

They may also “micro-blog” on services such as Twitter, which recreate the raw, immediate and intimate feel of early blogs. Twitter messages, usually sent from mobile phones, are fewer than 140 characters long and answer the question “What are you doing?” Tellingly, Evan Williams, the co-founder of Blogger—an early blogging service that is now owned by Google, the Wal-Mart of the internet—now runs Twitter, which he regards as the future.

As for traditional (if that is the word) blog pages, these tend increasingly to belong to conventional media organisations. Nearly every newspaper, radio and television channel now runs blogs and updates them faster than any individual blogger ever could. (The Economist, November 6, 2008.)

A part of the blogosphere has transformed into blog networks with individual bloggers gathered at a specific place, e.g., Pajamas Network. I don't think it is a contradiction to both be an individual blogger, writing and publishing blog posts and at the same time belonging to a network of other bloggers. As I said in my post, THINKING IN WRITING:

I will try to follow some kind of weekly schedule, but now and then I will take a break from my EGO blog, concentrating on other assignments, for example writing pieces for other sites and preparing interviews for my podcasting show. I want to get into the right flow and start to microblog on a regular basis. (EGO, November 11, 2008.)

[Editor's note: I will write a short Twitter message on this blog post later on...]

TQM AT SWEDISH NEWSPAPER

I am happy to hear that a daily newspaper has "installed" a quality editor. [Editor's comment: The mainstream media is starting to get it, don't you think? ;)]

Somewhat random or rather not... related news: Rush Limbaugh stands up for dismembered lion - The Local.

Recommended reading: Total Quality Management at Answers.com. Check out the blog network details for Pajamas Media.

EGO BLOG TALK RADIO

I will start my own blog talk radio show.

PAJAMAS MEDIA ON FACEBOOK

I have joined Pajamas Media's group on Facebook. My company has set up a Blue
Chip group on Facebook. We will create our own community on our new web site in the near future.

FLEMMING ROSE AND NORTHERN LIGHT

Flemming Rose, cultural editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, has joined Pajamas Media. Check out his blog, Northern Light.

Related: My post, JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST.