(2) What had Drudge done lately? Nothing. He’s still living off his big Monica Lewinski scoop.

I hope that explanation helps!

Let me add that blogs will never approach him. Because its a pyramid kind of.

Blogs need to be smaller and thus can be more focused on the information they share, provide intellectual discourse and give and take.

Then you have larger instant sharing sites that feed off of blogs, ie.. Instapundit.

Then you have someone like Drudge who feeds off the MSM, instapundit, large blogs and I am sure some smaller very valuble blogs… the latter of which I imagine Roger has found his niche sites as well.

So to compete with Drudge you have to want to produce a board sheet of links etc… and I agree its got to be instantaneous and quick like trading stocks… and most bloggers don’t have the time or inclination to do that… but provide a valuble service and get more give and take with their readership as a result.

Mike

And Drudge definitely reads the blogs. He had the upside down clock up at his site during the day or the next? after Powerline and lgf blew that story up that morning. Scott and Paul speak about it at the CSPAN link. Considering how catty Drudge got with the other Giant EGO (Oreilly) after OEgo lied to Drudge about his Westwood One radio deal…., for which Drudge trashed him for months and still holds a grudge. lol! Drudge posted about his ‘bad radio ratings’ and maybe getting pulled off the air.

Drudge definitely provided much more of a new service a few years back when it was MSM, CNN and that’s it… (Oreilly too)

There’s more choices now, however, Drudge has become a brand name a kind of instant out of MSM brand name, and his site’s traffic is proof of that. In the last 3 years its gone off the charts comparably speaking. I remember the old days when he was getting a million to two a day.

S he’s not going anywhere, on the contrary he’s become a brand name without paying billions of dollars to get one.

So far the blogs are nowhere close to approaching him, because people can pop in to his site and get a quick glean of headlines they may not have seen in their paper whereas blogs are more attention intensive. Blogs are of course therefore, more personal for the more motivated news searcher, information debater and sharer.

It will be interesing to see if the new site can compete with Drudge, they’ll need a scandal to do it…

And in every interview I’ve seen he always seemed like kind of a snotty arrogant kind of semi geek. Drudge’s comment about Michael Moore was very telling to me. It just shows he is a business man who plays off his being anti-MSM when it pays for him… and thus appearing conservative. Notably he supported Gibson from the beginning as well, anti MSM.

And for the record, in every interview I’ve seen he always seemed like kind of a snotty arrogant kind of semi geek.

It’s certainly his privilege to try and milk the site for whatever he can. But he’s pushed me out of any interest in visiting it anymore.

There’s no reason to be bored by the news in these times unless you have a tabloid mentality.

Breitbart may be at Moonbat Central with David Horowitz.

Does anyone remember who or what Breitbart left Drudge for?

But yes I do think it seems that he’s a bit paranoid of blogs now, especially that there is very good competition in his niche (tabloid-y headlines) at http://www.sploid.com (owned by Wonkette’s Gawker Media, this is the self-proclaimed anti-Drudge site), and of course http://www.fark.com.