Blogging is Going Places... and Doing Battle

The incomparable James Mirtle pointed out that USA Hockey has written about blogging and it's rapid popularity. This article puts a positive spin on hockey blogging and revisits the New York Islanders' Blog Box as they evaluate it's success over the last year.

One year ago, a Detroit News journalist roasted sports bloggers in an article that inspired this response. At the time (early November), the Blog Box was still a new experiment for the Islanders. They had only played seven home games, if I remember properly. So it's interesting to note that embracing the bloggers has worked out for them.

The other teams I looked at were the Caps and my own Ducks. As far as I know, the Capitals will continue to lead the way with their full-embracing of bloggers. The Ducks have not clarified whether or not their own no-blogger policy is facing changes in the near future.

But, on the flipside of things, doing battle in blogging isn't in reference to this media/blogger debate. It's actually in reference to why GwaP has gone *gasp* to moderated comments!

Oh, why, Finny, why? you wail.

Because, my loves-in-blogoland, there's a mean little poser that's usurped the place of a perfectly decent blogger (read: hacked into someone else's hockey blog) and has been leaving ugly, muddy footprints all over the comments section of a number of well-respected blogs including HLOG's own & USA Hockey's Top 10 pick DC Cheap Seats, HLOG itself, and a number of other female-run blogs. I understand that the women are not the only ones subjected to this comment abuse and usually I welcome challenging commentary. However, when the comments are rude, sexist, and done with the obvious attempt to try to redirect readership to their self-proclaimed superior hockey blog, I reserve the right to delete it.

Naturally, he came back and reposted essentially the same sexist commentary, so I decided -- to follow in the steps of HLOG -- to moderate comments until the abuse has subsided. After all, I'm all about the LOVE, and I'd rather not stir up the drama. It's just not worth it.

goal by Finny at 7:49 PM