blogwatch: the weekly gets bloggy

By josh
June 21st, 2006 @ 6:34 PM internet

It looks like Seattle’s other alt-weekly is getting into the blogging game, too. As far as I can tell, the revolution hit the web today, but items started accumulating late last week with an inaugural post [#] celebrating Seattle Weekly awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Where the Stranger has “the Slog” [#] and “LineOut” [#], Seattle Weekly has “Daily Weekly” [#] and “Post Alley” [#]1.On top of that, the Weekly includes “Mossblog” [#] a very special site for Knute “Mossback” Berger’s musings. Appropriately enough, he kicked things off with a response [#] to his column in which he called the carless a bunch of moochers.

To date, the offerings from Seattle Weekly seem less obsessively updated and lack the ability to comment. But it’s only been running for a few days; so it’s likely that features and frequency will develop with age. (update: Chuck Taylor writes [#] that the omission of comments will be remedied shortly)

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1. Your mileage with these analogies may vary. For instance, LineOut is music-focused and PostAlley seems more general-arts.

4 Comments so far

  1. Chuck Taylor (unregistered) on June 21st, 2006 @ 6:44 pm

    Regarding comments:

    http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/blogs/dailyweekly/2006/06/were_new_at_this.php


  2. josh (unregistered) on June 21st, 2006 @ 6:47 pm

    Thanks. I missed that post, but I’ve added a link to the main entry now.


  3. Michael Hanscom (unregistered) on June 21st, 2006 @ 10:30 pm

    While if I’m on the street and only have time to skim one, I’ll probably grab the Stranger, the Weekly just did one major thing to win my eyeballs — where the Stranger only has RSS feeds for the Slog, the Weekly has RSS feeds for [everything][1]. Much, much nicer — and thanks to that, I’ll be reading a lot more of the Weekly than I do the Stranger.

    [1]: http://www.seattleweekly.com/about/pages/rss.html

    At least until the Stranger steps up to bat with more RSS feeds. ;)


  4. Gary Love (unregistered) on June 22nd, 2006 @ 12:44 pm

    The ability to add comments are back up on the site. It was an idiot move on my part (keeping the comments script in an directory requiring authentication), but as Chuck said, we’re new at this.

    If you have any suggestions for the blog or site as a whole, let me know: webmaster@seattleweekly.com



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