Bloggers Are Winners

Monday, January 3, 2005, 13:13 —by oso
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citybeat winners and losersSan Diego City Beat, in their end of the year, Winners and Losers of 2004 issue, declared that Bloggers were number 27 out of the 41 biggest winners of 2004. That puts us behind George Bush, Jesus Christ, Osama bin Laden, Kobe Bryant, and even Switchfoot. But, lucky us, we are listed just ahead of Kensington Coffee, Al Jazeera, The Chargers, and even the ubiquitous iPod. In explaining themselves, City Beat says:

27. Bloggers- Fun to read? Yes. Informative? Mostly. Entertaining? Usually. The death of print media? Hardly. But that Wonkette sure is hot.

Meanwhile City Beat columnist Ms. Beak writes reports that the 118-year-old San Diego Daily Transcript will “dump the print edition and go online exclusively within a few years.”

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7 Responses to “Bloggers Are Winners”

  1. David Moye said on Monday, January 3, 2005, 13:55

    Shemm will be performing on the Jimmy Kimmell Show Monday Night (Jan 4).

    tell a friend.

  2. geo said on Monday, January 3, 2005, 20:46

    This is funny — someone from City Beat contacted me about an article on San Diego bloggers
    but nothing came of it when I wasn’t available on a certain date.

  3. Michael Field said on Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 10:06

    Actually, Ms. Beak was quoting the editor of the Daily Transcript.
    Don’t take things out of context, bloggers.

    Speaking at a San Diego Press Club forum, San Diego Daily Transcript editor
    Reo Carr said the 118-year-old paper will dump the print edition and go online
    exclusively within a few years. “People don’t want the paper anymore,” he said,
    using words that undoubtedly inspired his staff and the paper’s sponsors.

  4. oso said on Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 12:35

    Michael,

    Thank you for your comment and the clarification, but I should note that bloggers did not write this post, I did, it was my mistake. And I definitely did not intend to quote out of context. Rather, I was looking for a single sentence to convey that Ms. Beak’s column covers the upcoming change for the SDDT. I changed “writes” to “reports” which hopefully clarifies that it is not Ms. Beak who makes the decisions for the Daily Transcript, but rather that she reports them.

  5. oso said on Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 12:45

    Geo,

    City Beat is definitely on the hunt for a bloggers article. I have a feeling that they are trying to find a slant both different from The Reader, which has republished collections of entries from local bloggers and the Union-Tribune, which tossed them off as a “Web fetish.”

    I will ask editor Dave Rolland to comment here.

    Also, it’s great to come across your weblog. I’ll make sure to pester Joe (who is very busy moving right now) to add it to SanDiegoBloggers.com.

  6. Andrei said on Monday, January 10, 2005, 18:31

    RE: “Bloggers Are Winners”

    I wonder how they rank “hose who scored and those who were floored” ?
    Any guideline?

  7. oso said on Tuesday, January 11, 2005, 18:12

    Andrei,

    Good question. That cream pie clip of Bill Gates is pretty funny.

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