Blogging Gone Mild
It seems that Candidates Gone Wild claims to have a blog. Falsely claims, as it turns out.
What they have is their editorial from Willamette Week republished on their own website, with an apparently-static length of text which they’ve labelled as being an Exclusive Anonymous Blog as if simply naming it thusly made it so.
And to comment on this pretend blog? You have to click an email link which will open your email client and pre-address a message with a subject line meant to label it as being a blog comment.
Meanwhile, the online version of the WW editorial instructs people to visit the CGW website in order to respond despite having its own comment functionality. Although comments there aren’t automatic, and require approval, the process there at least manages to be a step or two beyond the CGW site by including a form to fill out in order to post a comment.
After all this time, and all of this local blogosphere, have Willamette Week and the Bus Project really learned this close to nothing?
They don’t have a blog. What they have is a website, circa (maybe) 1995. Every time the traditional media calls something a blog that isn’t, it diminishes what’s unique about the form.
Shit or get off the pot, people.