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A Blog Is Born At Seattle Weekly (triplets actually)

Word is that Chuck and Knute were burning the midnight oil in the Seattle Weekly metallurgical laboratory recently when an experiment intended to result in a bronze alloy went awry. The smoke cleared and three blogs with attending RSS feeds lay in the bottom of the cauldron. Should be fun.

Are three blogs really necessary, though? In this corner, you have the Stranger blog containing posts on topics so various that no mere group of eclectic mortals could possibly be interested in them all (except music - that's a different blog). And in the far corner, you have the Post-Intelligencer playing the 'more is more' card with so many niche blogs so finely tuned that we're awaiting the 'Ultimate Frisbee playing stay-at-home daddies with HSV2' blog any day now.

Seattle Weekly, do your three blogs if you must, but if we have to read one more post like the following, our head's going to fucking explode:

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Tell us something or don't tell us something. Don't tell us you're going to tell us something over here under shell number three. Multiple blogs per print publication: good or bad?

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  • Seth

    Josh is right. Slog does the same thing, and it's equally annoying.

    You wouldn't have a stand-alone article in the Northwest Life section saying "Turn to page D8 for an article about the Sounders", so why would you have a blog post like that. Maybe link to your own blog, if it's contextual (like a news article about a Seahawks star's court date might give the page for an article about next week's game at the end of the piece).

  • ah, give the weekly a break. the slog seems to point out the existence of LineOut at least once a day, too.

  • The podunk news rag the Kitsapsun has eight freaking blogs. 8!!!

    http://web.kitsapsun.com/1newsroom/blogs/blogx.html

    The also use one for Letter to the Editors so that is actually 9

    http://blogs.scripps.com/kitsap/letters/

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