I’ve long been a fan of quirky newspaper names. What’s the name of your favorite canary cage liner or fish wrap?
For U.S. papers mine is the New Orleans Times Picayune
For international I’m a fan of the Suddeutsche Zeitung and the Badisches Tagesblatt if the two merged and become the Suddeutsche Tagesblatt it would be my all time favorite!
What’s yours?
There’s a paper in Penna. called The Intelligencer Journal.
Intelligencer? I never got what that was supposed to mean.
“The Toledo Blade”
About the only cool sounding thing to come out of the armpit of Ohio (the other armpit being Youngstown of course)
Wait a cotton-pickin’ minute BH, are you telling us that Toledo gets the “Mud Hens” AND the “Blade”? Somebody needs to investigate. I suspect that Clintons are involved in this travesty of justice.
And here I am yet again. This category seems to fit for Question of the Day, so here goes, if you don’t mind, sir(s).
Have noticed lately that some of the other (yeah, yeah, I know) blogs that I read have been doing a little bit of banding together. You know, Tom and Dick write this blog, then Tom and Harry write another one with a different name, and then Dick and Harry and Estelle write even another one — but they all just copy and paste and “double-post” all over each other and claim to be helping or “guesting” or “guest writing”.
Knowing that it’s their business, not mine, but is that to drag readers back and forth or what secret blog code/rule is that following?
And it’s real damn annoying and pointless, in my opinion, once you catch on. So instead of checking on those 4 or 5, you can just read one. So why would they do it?
See, I’m thinking you might know. (Rufus)
Kath,
I’m not sure I’ve seen what you mean, so I might not be able to answer. Do you have specific examples?
I have seen this site post some of the same things as DH’s place. There have been a handful of times I thought something DH posted was so important it warranted a double post, and I believe I always credited him when doing that, but on more than one occassion it’s been a case of “great minds think alike.”
We do get a lot of spam here. A LOT of spam. And I’ve traced some of it around to see what’s going on. Some of it falls into a pattern like you describe and it is just trying to get eyeballs to look at ads. There are programs that go around and look for posts on blogs about something that is a hot topic and then they copy another blog’s posts, or link to it, to try to draw people interested in that topic to their blog, which is really just a front for advertisers.
Here’s an example: any post we do on Sarah Palin gets linked to by spam blogs. Obviously some nefarious, evil spam people have run some analysis and found out “Sarah Palin” is a hot topic and lots of folks are googling her name. So, they try to sneak their way on to blogs like threedonia to trick our readers into going to their sites and reading their ads.
No, no, you saying here’s something I saw on Mr. X’s site or vice versa — I mean, to me, that’s usually bec. it’s interesting and/or ties in to something being talked about here or that you want to bring up.
What I’m talking about is this lastest thing of (and bec. I’m complaining, I don’t want to say specific people) but — ok.
I write Kath’s Place. You are a parter and write there.
Then on Rufus’ Place, you post your subjects from Kath’s Place and a couple more things of your own. Floyd is your partner. And it just goes on and on.
Except now Floyd’s Place is now called Political Thoughts. And the same posts from me and you are there as new and informed, just reiterated, posts.
So basically four or five people write about six different blogs. I know, I know, what’s the big deal, who cares? It just seems it’s driving people away instead of drawing them in. Maybe that’s the trick, tho, they get you just all between them and you never get away.
I’m questioning the marketing strategy basically.
The Los Angeles Pravda
Gosh, I’m speaking long and badly today.
What they’re doing is constantly telling you to go back and forth to these other places. Cross posted, that’s the word. (geez.)
Wait — Pravda?
Kath… I have a personal blog, but I never double post anything. When DH moved from all movies to all politics there was a lot of stepping on posts — probably both ways. I link to news articles I get from other blogs, but try to make my own judgments on those stories and then pass them along. I do this like I do my classes. I talk about what interests me figuring that if I’m passionate, educated and witty, it will be contagious.
There’s a certain amount of ego involved of course — I think I’m funny and smart and generally well-informed. I’m also curious as hell and an auto-didact … I want to learn more about whatever interests me all the time. Holy crap! Maybe I’m Asperger’s?!?
Well, see, that’s my problem — except usually in women they don’t call it curious, they call it nosy. (Sigh.)
I just always want to know why. The whole what, when, where, why and how — and then let’s go back to why and go over that part again.
And now you know that sound you hear is my head rattling when I walk!!
Thanks, Floyd, Rufus, et al.
No problem, Kath. But back to the matter at hand: great newspaper names. Let’s hear more. And I agree with “Intelligencer.” I’ve run across those before and it ranks up there with “Picayune.”
I like the Rock Island Argus
I like the name Daily Gleaner (out of Fredericton, New Brunswick) – ‘glean’ is a neat word.
Daily Gleaner and Argos are both awesome newspaper names!
Dammit, blackhawk, I’m away from a computer all day and ya gotta go insult the two places I called home in Ohio…before I could go after the armpits, of course. Toledo Blade — oy!!!