Take a toke – a big one – before even trying to read the execrable new Vancouver venture ‘VancouverIAM‘. A localized version of Vancouver web 2.0 powerhouse, NowPublic. It has taken all the problems of NowPublic and condensed them into one focused site.
Like Now Public, VancouverIAM is a ‘citizen journalism’ site. Similar in concept to Digg, but where your submissions are integrated into a more visually friendly interface – so they look like a news site, rather than the simple list you get on Digg or Reddit or whatever.
It’s a good idea, but it’s hobbled at its inception by the closed mindedness of its creators.
I work on the edges of this business, and have specifically chosen to avoid a lot of these local web 2.0 guys because they are a bunchy of lefty pains in ass.
Check out the top stories on Vancouver IAM:
History is ready to be stuffed, propped up and screwed to the ground
Protesting in the 21st Century
Harper, The Safe Injection Site is Provincial, Not Federal, So Hands Off
Take a bong hit, get your best NDP ‘buds’ in the room and start bitching about ‘the man’ – and honest to buddah, your rant will be to the far right of what you find on Vancouver IAM (though you should be just high and lame enough to hit the NowPublic groove).
Note to ‘citizen media’ sites – you and your 10 best friends that all live in awesome lofts in the same neighbourhoods, eat at the same overpriced sandwich places and shop at the same ‘authentic’ second hand shops on Main street – you assholes are not the citizenry. You are a very small part of it, a fringe, a vocal fringe certainly, but nowhere near the mainstream.
Trust me, I keep track of this kind of thing – lefty blogs are in decline, the high volume sites are almost all right-wing. But how welcome is a right winger on your sites? You guys suck.
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“lefty blogs are in decline, the high volume sites are almost all right-wing.”
People who are into politics like to read volatile fringe sites more than they do logical, and longer-winded essay style sites. While the majority of high volume blogs are probably right wing (even extreme right wing, eg. Malkin, LGF, SDA, etc.) the majority of blogs and traffic are not political.