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April 06, 2005
What we knew that you didn't
Well... lots, actually.
Judging by the spike in traffic at Canadian weblogs across the board... welcome new Flea-readers! In fact, welcome to the blogosphere. For reasons that should be obvious I have not been specific about some things we bloggers knew that you did not let alone when or how we knew what we did. Suffice to say that blogging is a medium that operates well within the news cycle of anybody in an old media context. Look, we bloggers love newspapers and radio and television... all of it. In fact, we love news so much we write, edit and publish our own media. Sometimes we even make news ourselves.
The Flea gets political when I am feeling cranky but mainly features pop culture and an ongoing paeon to Kylie Minogue's assets. This may not sound like a likely place to keep up to date with, say, pulling something out of my hat at random, events surrounding testimony to a criminal inquiry and I would not dream of publishing anything to do with the magic words Gomery, AdScam, Brault or "Belinda Stronach nude". But the point is not just what I publish or don't publish. It is the fact this blog is connected to the biggest, baddest, fastest fact-checking network humanity has yet to devise. Seriously. Bookmark some blogs and keep reading us after current events become less current. There is always something new on the way that the CBC won't find out about for a week or so after we have linked it, written about it, commented on it and moved the conversation on to the next place.
For any old media types out there, the Flea attracts a quarter-million page views a month. Give me a column or a radio spot and give some of those Flea-readers happy a reason to stop browsing the internet for a few minutes!
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 6, 2005 07:27 AM
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