What is News? You've said it

I like blogs which have entries like the post you just posted. What's new news for me is "novel ideas" or ideas not found elsewhere. Essentially I want the bloggers "take" on an issue. Blogs are to me just "glorified message board posts". When I go to a message board I don't read everyone's post. And the same with blogs. Different blog strokes for different folks.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write that pep talk for me :-D

> Actually I more often suffer from "foaming at the mouth" (or the
> fingertips, as the case may be).

> Actually the biggest problem is that I started MaaMaw's Morsels intending
> to do it the same as my old Boardwatch -- which was quite popular (not
> huge traffic by any means, but pretty good considering I did absolutely
> nothing to promote it because it took so many hours to produce the bloody
> thing I hardly had time to answer nature when it called).

> I decided I would revive it in a blog because I don't have the deadlines
> that way. People aren't getting up in the morning looking for it like with
> BW. I can just do the best I can.

> I don't think it works in a blog -- at least not my blog.

> Part of the problem is that, try as I might, I just don't like blogs.

> I thought I did -- I had a burst of, "HEY, THESE ARE GREAT!" --
> but the truth is, I think the vast majority of blogs are just plain silly
> (mine included). Like I said, I find something great in a blog, but it
> turns out that person got it from another blog, who got it from another
> blog, who got it from another blog. That's how the word silly got tattooed
> on one of my eyeballs ("worthless" on the other).

> Then I look at a humongously popular one like InstaPundit, and I see that
> I am wrong. Most of his entries are literally two-liners pointing
> somewhere else -- but pointing to the original story, which I feel is
> better than pointing to another blog or board or whatever (which is why I
> feel MaaMaw's Morsels is a bust).

> (Can't you just hear Rooster yelling, "IF YOU SAY IT'S WORTHLESS, HOW
> DO YOU EXPECT TO GET ANYBODY TO READ IT????")

> I don't feel like I'm making sense -- just trying to explain why we are
> not amused with MMorsels. (If I weren't under the gun to earn a living, I
> would putz along with it and see what develops, but bloggying is very
> time-consuming...)

> Yes, that would be a whole different blog -- not what I intended to do
> with MaaMaw's thing.

> I know about a million "article banks" -- but again, the same
> stuff appears in ezines and newsletters and on websites; that's why it's
> posted on article banks, so people will pick it up and use it. I don't
> enjoy rehashing stuff that's already been rehashed 80 different ways
> (except with dinner, I've been doing that a lot lately, but I digress).

> Do you have any idea where people get "the news"?? That's
> something I've wondered about forever.

> A talk-show host said the other day that he gets his news first cuz he
> gets it from The Drudge Report. Well that's silly, cuz The Drudge Report
> gets it from somewhere... (and a talk-show host darn well oughtta be
> gettin' it from the same place...)

> Thanks again!

> Luv,