Idolator
Now that Pitchfork's video-heavy Pitchfork.tv and Stereogum's "Television With Even Less Pity Than Television Without Pity" spinoff Videogum have safely launched, we can all see the folly of all the pre-launch "OMG direct competitors?!?" chatter that threatened to sag the meta-music-blogosphere past its already-pretty-low point. Yes, "video-related sites that are brand extensions of popular music sites and launching in early April" could be a (somewhat wordily named) trendlet, but surely anyone trying to lump the two together as direct competitors is either really overly invested in pitching a trend story on this topic or not so into concepts like "nuance" or "completely different business models and also kind of different audiences." [Hypebot]
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Pitchfork.tv Vs. Videogum: It's On! (Not Really.)
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10:30 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Maura Johnston
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So I can expect Idolator's video-related spinoff to launch, like, tomorrow?
@AL: Vidolator
@Ned Raggett: Wasn't that a Depeche Mode album?
@The Notorious T: Enjoy the streaming
On this topic, btw, just yesterday Mrs. Catbird, on seeing Pitchfork.tv for the first time, pointed out how it's basically just New York Noise, but on the web instead of on Public Access.
Deconstruction Time Again
What the heck is the point of Videogum, anyway? Is it any different from bestweekever, televisionwithoutpity, tvgasm, etc. etc. etc? Like, just because they plan on posting once every third week about video games, it's a whole different thing?
[www.jambase.com] launched in March, so there.
@Audif Jackson Winters III: There's about 8 million music blogs out there, so why not 8 million TV blogs too?
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