His blog will move to Time.com sometime in 2006 and he says nothing else will change.
Raw Story has the story here
Time Magazine ‘buys’ Andrew Sullivan’s blog: A ‘distinct voice’…
Jeff Jarvis from Buzzflash.com and Buzz Machine expresses the idea that maybe Time has the good idea backwards. He offers the perspective that the big media entities miss a chance to draw new readers to the Time site that might happen leaving Sullivan where he is. I agree with this assessment and think the same goal could have been accomplished differently.
The new way would be to build your audience and brand and ad revenue all over the web, at all the best places, piggybacking on the audience and reputation that is already there.
I get the feeling that Sullivan’s blog will change over time with the influence of a corporate sponsor. I’m not saying he’s making a bad move but the eventual matter of self censoring might make the difference between what he writes and what he avoids.
I’m not one of the biggest fans of that blog anyway so it makes little difference to me. He’s good at what he does but I don’t share a majority of opinions with him.
Can a blogger be assimilated into a corporation without any changes to how the content is represented?
Is it just a matter of time before we see the Booman News and World Report?
I hope it works out for Andrew. He and I may not vote for the same candidates, but I like him and I greatly admire his strong stance against torture.
Yeah, that’s about what I thought.
I do think it’s a good sign for the internet community voices to be heard more in the future.
How exceedingly odd.
I can’t imagine what Time-Warner thinks they are doing but then I haven’t turned a multi-billion dollar business into a hole in the ground.
ha! I guess it goes to show what someone can do when they apply themselves.
…snatched failure from the jaws of fortune..
I’ve seen my potential and refuse to live up to it.
who knows? my brother wrote for US News and World Report for years.
There must be channeling or something going on cause I just grabbed that random choice out of thin air.
It’s those damn remote viewers, I say.
to make any changes. He doesn’t seem to really get what all the fuss is about. He has his own little agenda and it doesn’t seem to be very broad.
The articles seem to imply a blogger neighborhood of sorts so I bet they’ll add some contrast over time. I don’t seek that blog out now and being on Time.com won’t change that for me.
I’m wondering how much he’ll self-censor but your comment put it back in perspective. Like the lawyer shouldn’t ask questions (s)he doesn’t already have answers for, MSM shouldn’t adopt bloggers that they don’t think won’t dissent too badly.