The SZ Magazin published a piece by an American blogger, Felix Salmon, about problems with German blogs: "Ten Reasons why German blogs are dysfunctional" Zehn Gründe, warum Blogs in Deutschland nicht funktionieren. Unfortunately, the author does not appear to know much about the blog-scene in Germany. For example, Salmon writes:
Die Deutschen sind methodisch und systematisch und umfassend in dem, was sie tun. Die Blogger lieben Schnellschüsse, sie machen Dinge ad hoc, es ist schwer, sie festzunageln. (The German way of doing things tends to be methodical and systematic and comprehensive, while the bloggy way of doing things tends to be scattershot and ad hoc and hard to pin down.)
Certainly, there are methodical and systematic bloggers like Jens Berger, who writes long, well-reasoned and well-researched posts in Der Spiegelfechter - and who, by the way, has a large following. But there are equally other bloggers - like Der Schockwellenreiter - who use the "scattershot" approach of many short postings on a variety of subjects.
Other "problems" cited by Salmon are simply silly:
Die Deutschen nehmen ihre Ferien extrem ernst. Der Blogger kennt keine Ferien. (Germans take their vacations extremely seriously, and it’s hard to take a vacation from blogging.)
It's true that some blogs take vacation and holiday breaks - that is a blogger's perogative, especially if he/she is not getting paid to blog. But others - especially group blogs - have postings every day.
Actually, it appears that SZ-Magazin deliberately mistranslated Felix Salmon, since his original piece on Reuters was a critique of German "econonobloggers" , rather than a blanket commentary of the German blogosphere. But Salmon is even wrong about the German econobloggers: NachDenkSeiten and Weissgarnix (both are included in my blogroll) are just two outstanding German econoblogs.
In fact, the biggest difference between the German and American blog scene remains money. Influential blogs like Huffington Post have raised $millions, and a highly interactive blog like DailyKos, which attracts more than half a million visitors each day and wields enormous power, has fulltime editors, server support and Web developmers, all paid for by advertisers. There are some interesting experiments, however, in this direction in Germany. Recently, der Freitag, has changed its format from being just a weekly magazine to a community-driven Web portal for blogger-journalists. Let's see if the money follows....
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Posted by: Poker Gratis | March 10, 2011 at 12:41 AM