Comments on: Unnecessary DJ http://zole.org/2007/02/20/unnecessary-dj/ Life after "Death To The Extremist" Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:04:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Noah Schafer http://zole.org/2007/02/20/unnecessary-dj/#comment-52 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:57:48 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/02/20/unnecessary-dj/#comment-52 Hi Zole, Long time listener, first time caller. Love the show. I think that blogs, much like dvd commentaries, stand up comedy, and come to think of it, pretty much all art ever depend pretty heavily on the content providers non-shittyness. One cannot fake the proverbial funk. Ya either got it or ya don't. Noah Allen Schafer, esq. P.S. You got me, I don't know what esquire means. Hi Zole,

Long time listener, first time caller. Love the show. I think that blogs, much like dvd commentaries, stand up comedy, and come to think of it, pretty much all art ever depend pretty heavily on the content providers non-shittyness. One cannot fake the proverbial funk. Ya either got it or ya don’t.

Noah Allen Schafer, esq.

P.S. You got me, I don’t know what esquire means.

]]> by: Eliah Hecht http://zole.org/2007/02/20/unnecessary-dj/#comment-41 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:57:42 +0000 http://zole.org/2007/02/20/unnecessary-dj/#comment-41 I think it really depends on the subject. I work for WoW Insider, and I really do like the blog -- I read it long before I started working there. I also like TV Squad and Boing Boing quite a bit (does anyone really not like Boing Boing?). It's definitely true that group blogs don't tend to come up with new things most of the time, but aggregation is invaluable in certain domains, and sometimes those are interesting domains. That said, most of the 100ish blogs in my RSS reader are by individuals. The problem, I find, with individual blogs, is that they can become boringly polemic, to the point where I often don't want to wade through their arguments. But hey, why choose individual vs. group? Just read everything interesting. And as far as that picture goes, that's just silly. WoW Insider may use some slightly iffy pictures, but we try to keep them at least vaguely on-topic and/or amusing. I think it really depends on the subject. I work for WoW Insider, and I really do like the blog — I read it long before I started working there. I also like TV Squad and Boing Boing quite a bit (does anyone really not like Boing Boing?). It’s definitely true that group blogs don’t tend to come up with new things most of the time, but aggregation is invaluable in certain domains, and sometimes those are interesting domains.

That said, most of the 100ish blogs in my RSS reader are by individuals. The problem, I find, with individual blogs, is that they can become boringly polemic, to the point where I often don’t want to wade through their arguments. But hey, why choose individual vs. group? Just read everything interesting.

And as far as that picture goes, that’s just silly. WoW Insider may use some slightly iffy pictures, but we try to keep them at least vaguely on-topic and/or amusing.

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