Minnpost to battle fellow citizens' reckless blogging

Not long ago, Joel Kramer assembled a stable of legacy media types for MinnPost - High-quality journalism for people who care about Minnesota. That's fine: anyone can start up online and do what he or she wants, restrained by the bounds of time, money, employers, defamation and criminal behavior.

Indeed, bloggers come from practically nothing to being able to say whatever they wish. Now, how the heck did this metamorphosis happen?

It's just so messy; these bloggers who have been known to call other writers wankers and worse. You'd think that we didn't care about Minnesota when we do that.

Fortunately, relief is on its way from the menace of reckless blogging. MinnPost has hired a blog nanny to watch over those of us who presumed to set up blogs without asking permission. Yes, gentle readers, the Blog Cabin is here to award gold stars to those nice people who fit the rules of high-quality journalism and to take naughty posters out to the blog woodshed, according to Minnesota Blog Cabin: Keeping an eye on the state's blogosphere.

We unwashed have all been served notice by one of Kramer's legacy media hires who, as far as the blogosphere goes, was born yesterday but stayed up all night:

Over the last few weeks, I've scoured the Minnesota blogosphere, finding more than 500 blogs with some kind of tie to the state.

Well, bless his little heart.  And he's going to lay down the law:

Now, being a blogger with a worldwide audience also comes with a lot of responsibility. We've all heard at least one story about a blogger who has misled, misrepresented or flat-out lied on their blog.
 
Simply put, there's a lot of garbage in the blogosphere and I won't hesitate to call out a Minnesotan who blogs recklessly.

The people-powered media revolution is knocking at our door, friends. It's time to peak between the curtains.

We'd have thought that a "peek" between the curtains would be more in line, but who are we to judge a gentleman's pleasures?

Update: Looks like Minnpost has corrected its homonym error.

Since Mr. Site Traffic Software Log shows a hit coming to this post via a referring Minnpost email account, we know that someone associated with the online venue saw it.

Will we get spanked by our betters for pointing out that one? We certainly didn't get thanked for the free editing. [end update]

Good luck with that. 

The new village scold prompts us to post this reckless video from the esteemed Marshall Bruce Mathers III (not work safe):

Comments

[s4xton]

I seriously was shaking my head throughout his entire post. MinnPost having a column on blogging is like Ted Stevens explaining the Internet.