We Want Media

While this is rather late in the game, and I am just stalling for time while writing the Rojas post, Ben Popken (now editor of The Consumerist) wrote a wonderful live-blog of the NY Mag Blogs to Riches piece.

This is rather old, but well worth it for these two choice passages:

If you want in, get obsessed. The Spunker was started by an outsider newbie and rose to a position of some renown within 5 months. We certainly didn't do it by bitching about not getting enough trackbacks.

and, of course:

9:17 - Elizabeth Spiers, blah blah blah yay blogging. Done. The Spunker recipe for blog success: Mock people and things more well known than you. Post it. Tell the people you mocked about it. Post their responses. Post your response. Etc. We can't believe we just spent 31 minutes on this crap and will spend another 5-10 editing. Thank you NY Mag, you are the queen of pad.

NY MAG PENS BLOGS TO RICHES ARTICLE, ANNOYS THE CRAP OUT OF US (via The Spunker)