MLQ on Open Source Media

Just wanted to share to everyone that Manolo Quezon’s blog is part of the newly launched Open Source Media (OSM), formerly known as Pajamas Media.

OSMâ„¢ – the new portal to the best of the blogosphere. Open Source Media, a venture designed to bring together top online writers, journalists and commentators under a single umbrella, officially debuts today with a launch event at the Rainbow Room in New York City’s Rockefeller Center.

OSM’s mission is to expand the influence of weblogs by finding and promoting the best of them, providing bloggers with a forum to meet and share resources, and the chance to join a for-profit network that will give them additional leverage to pursue knowledge wherever they may find it. From academics, professionals and decorated experts, to ordinary citizens sitting around the house opining in their pajamas, our community of bloggers are among the most widely read and influential citizen journalists out there, and our roster of will be expanding daily. We also plan to provide a bridge between old media and new, bringing bloggers and mainstream journalistsâ€”more and more of whom have started to blogâ€”together in a debate-friendly forum.

They said to have been backed with a USD$3.5 Million in venture capital funding. OSM will link to individual blog postings and highlight the best contributions, chosen by OSM editors, in a special section. Bloggers will be paid undisclosed sums based on traffic they generate.

Kudos to MLQ! :)

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

2 Comments

Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

I think I read somewhere that the majority consuists of female teens with pink blogs. Let me get that link.
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DJB says:

19 years ago

What will bloggers look like outside their pajamas and can the habit be popularized beyond the elite? Interesting stat you didn’t mention that Larry Kudlow said in his remarks carried live on Blogjam Radio..The Blogger Demographic in the US is upper white middle class men and women with six figure annual salaries. (from the top 5% of income earners). What’s the demographic here, anybody know?
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