Tannishblog

Whoever this Atrios is, Blogstreet rates him number 1 on the 100 Most Important Blogs listing. Who knows how they figure that, but I’ll agree. I’m beginning to have a real appreciation of the time involved in being a major warblogger. All this for the love of the sport - as we all know, there’s almost no money in this.

Now there’s an idea! Let’s organize the Blogging Olympics. Line up sponsors from optical media companies, storage tech manufacturers, and ergonomic wireless keyboard companies. Events could be marathon posting (continual updating on a single post), a triathalon of research, self-editing, and word coinage, or a 50- 100- 200- and 400- word dashes. Track and field events would be replaced with mouse and cursor trials. I can just see the officials tossing a political stance in the air and 500 bloggers clambering to shoot hole in it with the highest accuracy. Judging would require the most advanced technology we can bring to bear.

And the after market endorsements - Andrew Sullivan as poster child for carpal tunnel creams, Jeff Jarvis and his amazing Post Editor, even Kos’ InKredible Elephant Slayer (patent pending).
My feeble imagination can’t do justice to the possibilities.

An olympic mind-set is just what we need to instill credability to this still-understood medium. Imagine the surprise on the faces of the MSM outsiders when the lists fill up with the miriad non-white-male bloggers that are out there; the asians, the black Americans, the women…

A picture is worth a thousand words; perhaps a few million words are worth a few pictures.