Hiya Hazel,

You know when we were talking about blogging the other day, we mentioned looking at some of the big blogs and seeing what they’re up to. Studying people who are successful might help us be better bloggers.

So I looked in the TTLB ecosystem and checked out some of the biggies. I’ll do a series of posts on them. The first is the Daily Kos. He’s right at the top of the ecosystem.

First of all, you can quickly see that the writers lean to the left in their politics. They REALLY don’t have much use for old GW. Here are a couple quotes from today’s posts:

. . . get back to retaking our country from the neanderthals running it into the ground.

The insular nature of the Bush administration is such that we’ve become amazed when they are forced to concede that the sky is blue (for now). We all live with such lowered expectations, that an agreement to talk, with no real concessions at all, is “a big success

Political blogging apparently is popular because Daily Kos has a high volume of traffic and comments along with an abundance of ads, too.

Plus, the Daily Kos folks are prolific writers. So far today there have been eight different posts. I wonder if that’s typical. Of course they have a group of writers. So it’s not like one person is cranking out all that rhetoric alone.

Parts of it were interesting, but the overall tone of the Daily Kos seemed a bit strident and angry - which is too bad. You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar. But you know there’s another old saying that misery loves company. Maybe that accounts for the traffic and number of comments. But personally, I wasn’t very impressed.

I’ll check out a few more of the top blogs in the TTLB Ecosystem and let you know what I think about them. Check back later.

See ya,

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