OSM has reverted to its original name, Pajamas Media. Trademark issues aside, the name Pajamas Media has more character. I was disappointed when I heard the name would change and even more disappointed when I heard it was Open Source Media. But that’s the past. Onward to the future, baby!
We are the pajamahadeen and ought to say so. The name not only mocks Jonathan Klein, but it invokes a rebellious and defiant spirit. A new medium has emerged and will continue to challenge traditional media to at least do accurate, if not objective, reporting. (I’ve come to the conclusion that not many human beings can be objective.)
Unfortunately, we can’t expect anything more of leftist journalists, can we?
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I’m not surprised that bloggers have become envious. But you guys work really hard and have to deal with obnoxious readers and critics, which is something I don’t think smaller blogs consider.
I’m actually envious of the fiction/screenwriter dude of the group. He’s been able to make a living from being creative and is on the inside of that impossible profession. His blog success is irrelevant to me.
Glad you brought this up, MJ. Some smaller bloggers can’t understand why I’m so dictatorial about comments. Know why? Because they don’t get a lot and/or they’re not subjected to nastiness and venom. I wish I could transfer a fraction of what I have to deal with onto the smaller bloggers who wish for more commenters.
“Be careful what you wish” is not just a trite cliche.
PLUS the PJ Media accronym can be typed with one hand! so I can keep sipping my coffee and still write “PJM”
It’s the little things, Scarlet.
Seriously- I like this name better too. I don’t have (much) problem with the OS compute community, so that really never bothered me. And I understand where the concept came from. I thought it was cute. But PJ Media is more memorable.
“Reverted” is fine. “Back” is redundant.
Muchos gracias! It’s early… – Admin
“Glad you brought this up, MJ. Some smaller bloggers can’t understand why I’m so dictatorial about comments. Know why? Because they don’t get a lot and/or they’re not subjected to nastiness and venom. I wish I could transfer a fraction of what I have to deal with onto the smaller bloggers who wish for more commenters.”
Google surber tbogg pu*****
I don’t delete comments. I got 274 the other day
The beauty of this medium is that we can allow or disallow whatever we want on our own blogs, Don. My blog isn’t a forum for anyone but me. I don’t provide a stage for anonymous, bored, overweight (or small!), emasculated lunatics. That’s how I run things at LBC.- Admin
Sorry bout that word. But my point was made
I enjoy your blog, BTW. Just disagreeing on this point, but you do what you want
I’m sure there are those who are envious – then there are others, such as myself, who are concerned with the business model.
To me, the revenue pipeline both present and planned is too narrow to recoup the 3.5 million in venture capital – not to mention any interest, fees, payouts and/or other costs tied in with this chunky sum.
Personally, I hope I’m wrong in this respect – but history is against me, well actually it is with me, well you know what I mean.
Seriously, Dean, why do you care whether it’s a bad business model or not? How will it effect you? I cannot understand why people are spending so much time blogging about PM. Good grief. – Admin
I was ready to retire the handle and write it all off as an exercise in improving my own grammar. After all, If Those Guys were tired of it who was I to argue? It was an apt description who’s time had come.
I was let down by OSM, and I was surprised by the depths of the criticism as well. I felt their pain. But maybe they should have stuck with it a bit longer. This sudden reversal has “New Coke” written all over it!
I’ve got nothing but respect for Roger and the Gang and wish them all the best. I’m sure we’ll all continue to to rely on them for much of what we read online.
Good question admin (though I suspect La Shawn maybeeeee?-)
I care because I can. Just like I put myself in harms way to move an unitting pedestrian who’s stepped out from the curb an into traffic.
I also care because I belive the MSM will be watching to see if this experiment fails – and if it does, will use this to put away a competitor.
I guess what I don’t understand is why are opinions such as mine so unwanted? There’s no malice or ill-will on my part – just observations based on training and experience.
La Shawn the link is password protected.
Pajamas Media is such a better name. It’s more casual, inherently snarky, and a fitting name for a startup that is by, for, and about bloggers.
Blogging is supposed to be fun and irreverant. The reversion to PJs is a good thing.
As for the rampant blogger envy/sniping/arguing/etc that came up after launch, everyone needs to take a second to relax. It’s a week old, and there are kinks to be worked out, just as would be the case with any other new operation. I’m not a PJs media member/contributor, so I have no dog in the fight. I hope it’s successful for the sake of all the parties involved. Why? Because I like their blogs.
I’d reserve judgement until a year or so from now, after PJM has finished her “shakedown cruise” so to speak. I think that everyone, supporters and detractors alike, will have a much better idea of where it’s headed by then. The arguments the critics and defenders make at that point will have a lot more validity, imho.
Until that time comes, people should probably chill.
Dean, it isn’t so much that your opinions are unwanted. I just feel a certain amount of ill will from other bloggers, and besides envy, I can’t figure out any other reason. I find it hard to believe that conservative bloggers “care” that mainstream media are watching.
Since when do bloggers worry or concern themselves over what MSM think of them??? You must be kidding. Sorry, but that’s just an excuse. I suspect many people are envious and/or simply can’t think of anything interesting to blog about on their own and see this as a way to get caught up in a swarm and generate traffic and links for the sake of generating traffic and links. All other explanations ring false.
Opinions are fine. I have plenty of them, but I dispense them on my own blog. I’m not e-mailing bloggers, or commenting and trackbacking to their blogs and whining about something they’re doing.
If a group of bloggers wants to enter into a legitimate business relationship with each other for whatever reason, I don’t see what it has to do with any other blogger.
Having said all that, you are perfectly free to blog about Pajamas Media 24-7 if you have the urge, and I’m perfectly free to call it silly.
La Shawn, sounds like we’re in violent agreement here. I’ve stated in several places that some people have gone way over the top with ad hominem attacks that don’t do anyone any good except to stir the pot needlessly.
I offered an opinion for the same reason I blog – so I’m not so sure if that’s just a convenient excuse considering the nature of this beast.
That said, gosh, other than one of my goofy parodies, I hope nothing I’d write would be so inane that you’d call it silly. As for blogging at PM – yeah, that’d be fun, but I really gotta get HealYourChurchWebsite back on its feet first.
I apologize if I implied that you in particular are a whiner or blog about silly things. I was alerted to certain venomous posts (via my traffic log) only because the bloggers, a few I’ve never heard of and some I’ll never visit or link to again, linked to LBC. I do think you’re one of the good guys, Dean, and I mean no offense. But I also see you helping to generate such an non-story story. I don’t want to be part of any flame wars, either, which I find extremely distasteful and reserved for unimaginative bloggers. Again, I don’t mean to offend, but I’d rather my name be kept out of those discussions.
No offense taken – I figure if I’m gonna dance in the blogosphere, eventually, everyone will step on my toes … if I don’t step on theirs first.
Good point though about progressing a non-story, hadn’t thought of it in that light.
Hmmm … I feel a parody coming on … something about non stories … something involving a tin can, an aspargus shoot and a duck .. hmmm …
I love ya, La Shawn! You bring out the gentleman in me. I keep the tawdry nastiness over on my site and play the perfect gentleman over here — that is, when I have the time to comment.
Just wanted to let you know I’m still here…reading you every day.
Now, back to the filth over at my site!
I was beaten with a stick by a college English professor every time I used “revert back.” Well, it wasn’t a very big stick. And it wasn’t really a beating. And I think he was a professor. But except for that, it’s all true.
Hey! I could be a reporter on MSNBC!
Jealousy is a problem that has been around since the Garden (the Original Sin wasn’t sex after all, it was being jealous of God’s knowledge & power). Somehow, I can manage to be jealous of my parents, who are using an inheritance to get some luxuries they’ve never been able to otherwise afford, while I think they’ve been envious that my job pays much more and is physically easier than the family farm. Silly isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s just human nature. We need to strive to get over it, and apologize when it does happen.
Since I tracked back to here in my criticism of OSM, I’ll also summarize my last post on my blog here: I was very wrong in my language criticizing OSM. I used wording that was personalizing, and that is never excusable. It’s never right to be personal while disagreeing.
I really do hope that PJM does well. There are a lot of good bloggers who need the exposure that PJM can give them, and the concept of a news aggregator for the Blogs rocks. I hope that OSM/Pajama Media fulfills every one of its public goals.
Keep your chin up LaShawn. Of course there will be a few people jealous of you. You’re living any hack writer’s dream: a full-time writing job. Please know that there’s a lot of us who really do appreciate how much work you put into this site.
I still don’t get why they nixed the name–their explanation is sort of cryptic. I don’t think the development of that site is a big deal, and I’m not impressed with the self-congratulatory style of their announcements. For some reason, some alternative online media groups think they’re really cool because they’re not the NYTimes. Just write well and give us good info, and we’ll decide how cutting-edge it is.
La Shawn, This is just to let you know that I’ve moved my blog to…
republicanjen.myblogsky.com
Now, anyone can make comments and not have to sign up.
Mean Dean et al,
Venture capitalists are Raaa-isk takers. You wanna guarantee? Buy a refrigerator. Having said that; I’ll say that I don’t know all of the “metrics” involved. So Rummy, I assume that bloggers, especially the founders, and alternatively Althouse, have a sense of ad revenue and any other revenue. Remember to call Dan and Mary cuz they are in Hollywood consulting on the script for a new movie; “The Little Really Big Election Fix That Couldn’t.”
OMG! It is a holiday weekend and I just turned on CSPAN! No, It isn’t an Arab anti-discrimination forum on Memorial Day weekend. It’s Michael Moore …. On another holiday weekend. Demoralization ad nauseam, ad infinitum.
Back to the point. Pajamas. Well, if La Shawn and Tammy are in ‘em, that’s fine by me!
BUT, I liked the old new name because it represented the synergy and the business side of the venture. It didn’t have to be Open Source as a name per se but something that represented Media to a greater degree than a pajama party of blogging which is just one aspect of PJM. Not that there’s anything wrong with pajama parties! The Carnivals and Blogjams are great!
PajamasMedia does represent other things but it does such to bloggers and surfers. Open Source was an authoritative name which is intersection of the game. Becoming an authority in parallel to existing authorities.
“You bring out the gentleman in me.”
This is a very good line – you are a kick to read, and yet you seem to bring out the best in most people.
There are some exceptions, I see…
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