Comment is free
16/03/06 13:13 Media
issues
The Guardian has launched its new comment site with
bloggers selected from its columnists. Called
Comment is Free
you can find it by clicking on that link.
The writing is up to a professional standard of course, and the debate ought to be robust. Thing is, it's not. Hardly anyone had put any reactions down when I posted this entry, in the two days since it launched. OK, hardly anyone comments on this blog either but I don't have the marketing muscle of the Guardian behind me to attract readers.
A couple of things could happen. First it could get better, which I'd welcome. Second, though, we could be on the cusp of discovering that people prefer blogs from amateurs and papers from professionals.
That is of course a wild guess. But at this early stage we really don't know how this blog thing is going to pan out.
P. S. Davinia's ratings were down again last night - 2.3 million in spite of the timeslot change.
The writing is up to a professional standard of course, and the debate ought to be robust. Thing is, it's not. Hardly anyone had put any reactions down when I posted this entry, in the two days since it launched. OK, hardly anyone comments on this blog either but I don't have the marketing muscle of the Guardian behind me to attract readers.
A couple of things could happen. First it could get better, which I'd welcome. Second, though, we could be on the cusp of discovering that people prefer blogs from amateurs and papers from professionals.
That is of course a wild guess. But at this early stage we really don't know how this blog thing is going to pan out.
P. S. Davinia's ratings were down again last night - 2.3 million in spite of the timeslot change.
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