Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:29:12
Inside baseball, inside OSM
Very interesting expose by someone involved in the early days of OSM.
The two of us had a series of long talks in mid-April about Tulip Advertising. He was of the opinion that we should seriously consider going to Roger and offering to take the advertising portion of the business off his hands: Roger and Charles could concentrate on media and journalism, we could concentrate on advertising. And while I basically agreed with everything Rocco said, I asked him to be patient and see what it was that Roger and Charles would bring to us. I remember the exact words I used: I want to be patient about this. I want to ride this horse to the end.
And I did. On April 29th I spent most of my day at a client’s. By the time I got back to my office it was mid-afternoon. I fired up the computer and started in on emails. When I got to one from one of my DTP readers, I got a jolt: It was asking for my opinion on the Pajamas Media announcement on Roger’s site from the day before. That email was the first time I had ever heard of the name Pajamas Media. I re-read the email, went to Roger’s site and read the announcement post, then went in the bathroom and threw up.
On that day, via that internet announcement, I learned each of the following for the first time:
1. The name “Pajamas Media”,
2. That a Marc Danzinger was Roger and Charles’ partner in Pajamas Media.
3. Marc Danzinger himself. I had never heard Roger utter the name.
4. That there was to be an “Editorial Board”,
5. The subscription-based news portal,
6. The media web site,
7. And that Rocco and I weren’t worthy of mention
More than EVER I am glad I didn’t get involved. People who do business like that are low.
Posted by JimK at 11:29 PM on November 20, 2005
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#2 Posted by JimK 
on 11/21 at 02:44 AM -
There’s been a schism in the conblog world for awhile...the haves and the “you’re not part of the in-crowd” crowd. The haves are all, interestingly enough, “bloggers” who write professionally for a living.
The rest of us do this for the love of the game.
#3 Posted by Helo on 11/21 at 06:39 AM -
The rest of us do this for the love of the game.
Exactly. Someone told me I shouldn’t make fun of Instapundit because he could ruin my blogging career. Dude, I have a real job and I do this for fun. Anyone who takes this that seriously needs to go outside and get some fresh air.
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#1 Posted by Helo
on 11/21 at 02:15 AM -
Sounds to me like OSM is going to be the great divider between those of us on one side of the conservative blogosphere, and those on the other side.
I’m with JimK.
Heh.
Indeed.