{"id":465,"date":"2005-04-20T08:04:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T13:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=465"},"modified":"2005-04-20T08:08:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T13:08:13","slug":"bloggers-as-the-next-oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/bloggers-as-the-next-oprah\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggers as the Next Oprah?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dangillmor.typepad.com\/dan_gillmor_on_grassroots\/2005\/04\/can_bloggers_ma.html\">From Dan Gillmor<\/a> come these stories of bloggers promoting literary fiction from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/books\/0516,fpress,63148,10.html\">the Village Voice<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050418\/LIFESTYLE01\/504180317\/1031\">the LA Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournalnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050418\/LIFESTYLE01\/504180317\/1031\">the LA Times article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calling themselves the Litblog Co-Op, the effort includes the sites <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/\">the Elegant Variation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorishgirl.com\/\">Moorishgirl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rakesprogress.typepad.com\/rakes_progress\/\">Rake&#8217;s Progress<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahweinman.com\/\">Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind<\/a>, all of which will continue to operate separately, the bloggers say.<\/p>\n<p>Key to the effort is the Read This! campaign they&#8217;ve created, in which five of the bloggers will each nominate a title he or she thinks deserves readers&#8217; attention, then the co-op will vote for one to promote jointly. The first title (four will be selected each year) will be announced May 15 on the group&#8217;s Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbc.typepad.com\">www.lbc.typepad.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/\">Mark Sarvas<\/a>, who drew the project together, described the effort as less an award program than a conversation starter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we ready for poetry reviews and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.triangle.com\/WebX?50@@.eee946f\">contributions to the News and Observer forums?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dan Gillmor come these stories of bloggers promoting literary fiction from the Village Voice and the LA Times. from the LA Times article: Calling themselves the Litblog Co-Op, the effort includes the sites the Elegant Variation, Moorishgirl, Rake&#8217;s Progress and Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, all of which will continue to operate separately, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}