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…

The Name of this blog has changed to: Pajamas Media / Stuck On Stupid Blog.

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.

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Now, anyone can make comments and not have to sign up.

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.

Hey! I could be a reporter on MSNBC!

Just wanted to let you know I’m still here…reading you every day.

Now, back to the filth over at my site!

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 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.

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.

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.