Big Biz Blogs

Gakwer Media released some new blogs to add to their already large stash. [Defamer, Wonkette, Gizmodo]. The new ones: Jalopnik, Screemhead, Kotaku. Gawker is a regular William Randolph Hurst

Together, all of these blogs are marketed to advertisers as "Niche market" venues. Gakwer media has turned the blog into a corporate entity. Gawker Media really begs the question: when does a blog cease being a blog a simply become a gossip column?

And then there is Gothamist which publishes "Ists" for four other cities.

There are more, we're sure.

Essentially, these blogs have become industry or geographic specific gossip columns. We're not criticizing though, since we love gossip just like everyone else. Its just like Fox News.

No doubt the professional blogging community is over the next few years going to grow and in so doing displace some older media sources. Standard fair newspapers like the Times should be concerned. Adding credence to this analysis is the New York dailies and their heated fight for young readers, going to the length of handing out free dailies. They should blog instead.

But until then we're waiting for these installments from Gawker Media:

Jizmodo
MILFette

And this from Gothamist:

Trentonist