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We told you about Pressbox, the originally named new Spec Sports blog, and now The Steps is back too! Welcome, Splog children, to the shiny world of new media (and most every other college newspaper in the country). So far they’re taking on political philosophy, national politics, sports and…nothing related to Columbia at all. But the scope of Splogs is capacious, its potential without limit. We look foward to a wonderful spring together.
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@Kulawik O'Rielly weekly standard > everything
@splogasm i’d rather spend my cuit-limited bandwidth on porn than spec blogs.
@commenter #8 the bloggers on splog are not “spec people”…but like i said, if indeed the team of bloggers isn’t diverse, if it’s just spec people, it indeed will be boring. give it some time, though!
@Dear Prudence I told you about spectator blogs
You know the place where nothing is real
Well here’s another place you can go
Where everything flows
Looking through the bent backed tulips
To see how the other half live
Looking through a blue onion
I told you about the jester and me, man
You know that we’re as close as can be, man
Well here’s another clue for you all
The jester is Rich
Standing on the cast iron shore, yeah
Lady The Record trying to make ends meet, yeah
Looking through a glass onion
Oh YEAH, OH YEAH, OH YEAHHHHH
Looking through a glass onion
I told you about the fool on the steps
I tell you man she’s living there still
Well here’s another place you can be
Listen to me
Fixing a hole in the beach
Tryin’ to make a dovetail joint
Looking through a glass onion
@slate Never, ever EVER compare me to Splog. The only thing I be compared to is my parent company, the almighty Washington Post, and possibly my bastard half-brother Newsweek.
Slate is God.
@rjt Salon.com > Slate
@huh people still read salon.com? at least slate doesn’t make you sit through ads to get at its hackery.
@splog come on guys, i think the point was to escape college walk. it’s still going to fall under the campus lens, because it’s written by columbia people. it just won’t suffer from stretched, trite cliches that it risked if the campus lens was more overt. it’ll be different from slate/gawker et al only if it succeeds in finding a diverse enough group of columbia studetns…which is tough since we’re all somewhat stuck in the same frame of mind–but isn’t impossible. can you dig?
@umm why would columbia students want to read random collections of news not related to columbia produced by spec people as opposed to other, more professional and inevitably better-written sources? the market for that kind of thing is already saturated, and natural selection is bound to take place. it did with the old splogs, anyway.
@Splog Splooge
hahaha
Splog sounds like Splooge.
@meanwhile the eye continues to update their fashion week coverage regularly, much to my surprise. spec’s usually bad with follow-through, so i’m still pessimistic
the steps sucks
@BPM I don’t dig the name. too easy and now reminds me too much of incredible acting, not journalistic bloggery.
i say they embrace “Splog.” Or “Splog!” They should only write breathless 50 word tirades and end them all with “so…um…SPLOG!” That’d be some good shit.
@gah that’s some shitty line height on those spec blogs. also, they appear to be covering nothing that we couldn’t read a thousand blog posts about anywhere else… or with any sort of “seen through college walk” perspective.
they will be dead again soon unless some changes are made.
@shitty start i fell asleep during the biden piece and woke up in the middle of that horrible superbowl wrap:
“Everyone knows that 90% of the audience is really watching to see the breaks, not the actual game.”
“Everyone” meaning speccies who write for The Steps to find another reason to not leave that office/meet normal folk.
@historical irony “the scope of Splogs is capacious, its potential without limit”
just like last time!
@also why can spec design beautiful pages for the eye and its blogs, but leaves the main page a frequent mess?