OSM (with the little trade mark sign) is up. We beg your indulgence for all the glitches I’m too beary-eyed to see at this hour of the morning.
Streaming video… oops make that audio (it’s 4:50AM LA time here)… links are at the site for this morning’s events. I’m headed over for my coffee.
I am now at the Rainbow Room with my coffee, workers dashing past me setting up behid huge banners that say OSM – Open Source Media. We are seek trademark on the initials OSM and our chances seem good. We tried for osm.com, but that was taken by the Oregon Steel Mills. Maybe osm.org is just as good anyway. We’re lucky as it is. Three letter urls are not easy to get anymore.
Needless to say, the naysayers are already weighing in.
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28 Comments
1. Lola:Congratulations! I’ll be putting a link up to OSM from my blog. Is there a button image I could snarf for my blog?
Nov 16, 2005 - 5:01 am 2. Pat Curley:I like the name, but I love Ott’s idea of nailing a pair of pajamas to the door of the New York Times!
Nov 16, 2005 - 6:13 am 3. Jamie Irons:Roger,
I like the overall gestalt of the site.
Tammy Bruce writes:
Americans face a media collective elite that views the rest of us as the great unwashed massess.
Keep those pajamas well-laundered!
Jamie Irons
Nov 16, 2005 - 7:01 am 4. Charlie (Colorado):Ditto on the button and a link on YARGB. And you want ™ for OSM™, ® for OSM®.
Nov 16, 2005 - 7:30 am 5. Anthony (Los Angeles):Gil Scott Heron was right: the revolution will not be televised — it’s being blogged, instead!
Congratulations to all, and viva OSM!
Nov 16, 2005 - 7:51 am 6. PJ:Your OSM site looks great, Roger, and is organized very well!
Have a dirty martini for me.
Nov 16, 2005 - 7:56 am 7. Jamie Irons:Pat writes:
I like the name, but I love Ott’s idea of nailing a pair of pajamas to the door of the New York Times!
While we’re at it, maybe someone should nail a brain to the door of the New York Times.
Jamie Irons
Nov 16, 2005 - 8:21 am 8. Laurence Simon:Huston – we have a problem.
Nov 16, 2005 - 8:36 am 9. Laurence Simon:Huston – we have a problem.
Nov 16, 2005 - 8:39 am 10. Keith_Indy:I like that “the revolution will be blogged…”
So, just curious, was that a name that came up in the discussion way back when on this blog?
Don’t have the time right now to go searching
Nov 16, 2005 - 8:42 am 11. Jamie Irons:Laurence
John Huston?
Jamie Irons
Nov 16, 2005 - 8:43 am 12. Xixi:I liked Pajamas better as a name because it already had some branding.
I’d love to see pajamas nailed to MSM outlet doors countrywide.
The new site seems r-e-a-l slow here in Northern Virginia, home of preening, moronic Senators.
I wish OSM all the best.
Nov 16, 2005 - 9:12 am 13. ahem:Congratulations, Roger. I know you and Charles worked your butts off on this and it’s beautiful. Now, let’s all work to make it a great success. The tide has turned…
Nov 16, 2005 - 9:37 am 14. Michael_B:An enthusiastic congratulations to one and all on the launch, can feel the groundswell from here. Also, can palpably sense, ever so slightly more, the MSM’s further fading into even darker recesses.
Maureen Dowd as Norma Desmond.
Nov 16, 2005 - 9:37 am 15. mythusmage:I get an invite, but I’m not on the blogroll. Roger, I’m a guy, I don’t handle mixed messages all that well.
Nov 16, 2005 - 10:31 am 16. Rodger S.:Congratulations on the OSM. The site is well done and there is obviously a lot of power players involved.
Unfortunately, I just don’t get it…yet. I’m not seeing the take-home value for me, but I will continue to pay attention to it over the next few weeks to see how it shakes out.
Background: I avidly read about a dozen blogs daily, including yours. One of my other favorites is powerline and I did “get” what they were doing regarding powerlinenewsblog from day one.
Rodger
Nov 16, 2005 - 10:56 am 17. Alexandra von Maltzan:Congratulations Roger! Check out the photograph, you are right at the front. Hope you like it.
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Nov 16, 2005 - 12:33 pm 18. Richard Nieporent:I like the name, but don’t you think your logo is a little too close to this one?
Nov 16, 2005 - 12:33 pm 19. Ed Minchau:OK, so my blog shows up on the OSM blogroll, but is not one of the “OSM blogs”. So, does that mean that I won’t get to contribute news stories to OSM (I specialize in space topics and would love to get media accrediation for the upcoming shuttle launch), or that I don’t get to carry the OSM advertising, or what?
Nov 16, 2005 - 12:53 pm 20. owl:Richard,
I think the logo is the least of their problems. For now. The lawyers are no doubt more concerned about the name. As for the logo, it seems to be based on a common motif used in calligraphy (Japanese). Although they seemed to have inverted the symbol, as the stroke usually starts at the bottom and heads left first. Anyway, although such paintings can look similar to the untrained eye, in fact they are like a fingerprint. Knowing quite a few artists who do this kind of work, I am curious to know where the logo came from.
Nov 16, 2005 - 1:12 pm 21. Ed Minchau:By the way, for whoever wants it, the OSM button code that I am using on my blog is available here.
Nov 16, 2005 - 1:12 pm 22. Ed Minchau:By the way, for whoever wants it, the OSM button code that I am using on my blog is available here.
Nov 16, 2005 - 1:16 pm 23. Ed Minchau:Damn. sorry about the double post.
Nov 16, 2005 - 1:17 pm 24. MikeD:Congratulations Roger! To both you and Charles and all the others. Your blogrole contains more than I could ever consume but I assume they will be your contributors. And given the Editorial board you have assembled (bloody brilliant!) I expect that content and guidance will be excellent. I bookmarked OSM immediately. It is destined to be a major stop in my daily wanderings. Finally, a one stop alternative to the msm. I hope you drive them into oblivion.
Nov 16, 2005 - 1:22 pm 25. L.B.:Roger…..
Congratulations! The site looks wonderful and I will be reading it everyday!
Nov 16, 2005 - 3:57 pm 26. Richard Nieporent:Owl, I guess OSM can always respond using the famous words of one H. J. Simpson: D’Oh!
By the way your comment that the source of the logo is from Japanese calligraphy is quite interesting. It was always assumed that Lucent got their inspiration for the design of their logo from the mark left of a table by a wet glass.
Nov 17, 2005 - 5:43 am 27. markus:Roger — Suggestion: for the OSM blogs page, rather than just a listing the name/link to each blog — why not have a picture of each blogger, a short paragraph introducing the blog, and maybe even the beginning of their latest post.
That would give me the opportunity to learn a little about a blog I am unfamiliar with and cosequently am unlikely to link to.
Nov 17, 2005 - 7:47 am 28. markus:Roger — Suggestion: for the OSM blogs page (maybe even for the blogroll page as well) rather than just a listing the name/link to each blog — why not have a picture of each blogger, a short paragraph introducing the blog, and maybe even the beginning of their latest post?
That would give me the opportunity to learn a little about a blog I am unfamiliar with and cosequently am unlikely to link to.
Nov 17, 2005 - 8:03 am