networkcultures.org not allowed to join blogburst

Posted: April 17, 2006 at 9:40 pm    |  2 Comments

I submitted the site of our institute (and this blog) to Blogburst, just to see what happens. Blogburst is a US-American service that takes topical content from ‘pre-approved’ blogs and provides it to publishers for republication. “You get visibility, audience reach and traffic, while publishers weave the rich and diverse fabric of the blogosphere into their sites.” Sounds pretty naive, no? The question here is not only who is in and who is out (the A-list debate) but which blogs are considered doing a ‘correct’ form of blog writing, snappy enough to be integrated in the mainstream media machine. What kind of comments, and stories, are considered acceptable? And what’s the exception? What political, and rethorical, criteria are used to exclude blogs to enter the pool? A similar issue will hit the Global Voices scene as bloggers at this meta-blogging site are going to be integrated in the Reuters news manufacturing procedures.

From: blogburst-editors@pluck.com
Subject: Regarding your BlogBurst request
Date: 17 April 2006 5:06:36 PM
To: geert@xs4all.nl

Thank you for requesting an invitation to BlogBurst. At this time your blog is not a good match for our current set of publisher partners. However, our network of publishers is quickly growing and we encourage you to check back with us occasionally. We expect for many of the blogs not invited in this early period to be a part of the BlogBurst network in the future.

Thank you for your interest in BlogBurst, and best wishes.

Best Regards,
The BlogBurst Team

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  1. Jodi says:

    April 20th, 2006 at 10:59 pm (#)

    That’s weird. After reading your post, I submitted my blog and it was accepted. It’s possible that it has nothing to do with writing and something to do with numbers of hits.

  2. Jodi says:

    April 21st, 2006 at 1:57 am (#)

    well, maybe I misread the thing–it seems that I am “undergoing review” and that the “invitation” they sent me may be provisional; yet, it also seems like that are focused on the US and on “lifestyle magazine” sorts of issues (at least this is how it appears to me from briefly looking through their site).

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