Agreed. It’s the not the comments or lack thereof that distinguishes a real blog from the proliferation of web content that newspapers are selling as “blogs.” But there does seem to be something stilted and artificial about a number of the Globe’s blogs (or the Times’, as Matt Yglesias points out), and a little more two-way or at least lateral engagement with others ideas would go a long way to giving Starts and Stops, or the Movie blog (to pick two of the ones I do like) more of a sense of life. I think Jay’s Econoblog - of Adam Reilly’s Talking Politics at the Phoenix - are good examples of reporter-blogging that brings the best of what amateur blogging has to offer.
All this is to say that I should appreciate Alex Beam’s rage against the publisher, but the condescension to bloggers is just the flipside of unhip posturing.
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