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Ann Althouse is certainly right about this:

If I were an insider to OSM, would I mock them like this? Isn’t much of the value of bloggers that we are on the outside? Rolling up together in a group to make money — is that worth the sacrifice of independence? Everyone who signed on is now stuck with the presentation on that website that we were not able to see when we were asked to sign on to 18-month commitments.

Even if a liberal version of OSM were to come around, I really wouldn’t have any interest. As I mentioned at the time of the Tribble discussion, my career choice is essentially about sacrificing money to gain independence; having to adhere to external rules and collaborate with large numbers of people with different agendas and developing rules to please the bankers–not my thing. We’ll never make the kind of money off BlogAds that an Althouse will, and I guess a stipend might be nice, but it’s just not worth it. I really want to be able to write about what strikes me (if not any discernible audience) as being worth writing about, to not worry about what my be frontpaged or sold as other media, not to have to deal with centralized content restrictions. I don’t want to have my ability to engage in snark to be defanged. It wouldn’t work for me, and frankly I don’t think it’s a very good model for blog content. I can’t imagine any interest from me at any viable price (and, of course, the feeling would almost certainly be mutual, so it’s win-win.)

Wolcott: “One wingnut blowhard who goes by the handle Confederate Yankee put up a post about Iraq, Democrats, and the diabolical genius. No doubt I’m too sensitive (I’m wired that way), but there’s something a bit iffy tastewise about a blogger calling himself Confederate Yankee running a picture of a hangman’s noose above the tagline…”Remember: it isn’t the fall, but the sudden drop at the end.” I think that if my handle were Confederate Yankee, I might steer clear of allusions to lynching, but perhaps this is the sort of edgy blogging they’re looking for at OSM…” Ah, conservertarians.

Norbizness: “Apparently, this juggernaut filled with reactionary cranks and quasi-liberal stooges is going to revolutionize the way that news is brought to other people who own weblogs (and what better way to memorialize this commitment to recycling bullshit than by having Judith Miller deliver an address at the launch?)”

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