http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/02/22/this-story-has-blogtown-written-all-over-it Comments On: This Story Has Blogtown Written All Over It by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss POSTED BY DAN SAVAGE
Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:18:12 -0800 Portland Mercury
But aside from the column, Savage's posts here (and Paul Constant's, too) are the equivalent of those radio stations that pretend to be local but are actually large swaths of robo-fare punctuated with just enough pre-recorded bits aimed at the local market to make you feel like there's a human involved who lives somewhere in your city.

This is made all the more apparent when the post has as its thesis "OMG, you guys, this story is so very like [insert local city's name here before posting]!"

But surely it hasn't escaped your notice that Savage's copy-and-paste Blogtown posts aren't exactly increasing pageviews here. The 16 comments on this post (almost none of which are actually a reaction to Dan's post itself) are the most a Savage post has gotten in at least a month -- most of his posts get 1 or 0 comments.

Compare that to, say, the 43 comments that Dan's "We See Christ's Love Most Clearly When Men Fuck Women" post got on Slog (the same post got 1 comment on Blogtown).

Fine, maybe comments aren't your favorite metric for popularity (it's all I can see). Maybe you hate the comment system (but not enough to remove it, because pageviews).

But still. The robo-posts from Seattle affiliates, by and large, suck. Is there really no one in Portland who can write two sentences and add a link?
Posted by tODD]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:26:54 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by onePound]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:41:44 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:26:37 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by guspasho]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:11:28 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Fruit Cup]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:20:57 -0800 Portland Mercury
I hope this explanation is sufficient, and that you finally understand why your bodice ripping feelings of outrage and betrayal are lost on me.
Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:36:04 -0800 Portland Mercury
This is like crossing out someone's name on a birthday card and writing in a different one because you're too lazy and cheap to buy a new card. Bastard.
Posted by Süpër Chüñdy]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:58:04 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by guspasho]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:55:23 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by ERN]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:59:55 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Drunk & Write]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:24:17 -0800 Portland Mercury
WSH: The world must know about this, no question. I just wonder if you might have a Mercury writer waiting around somewhere to post a link and a block quote once in a while.
Posted by Spaceman]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:19:55 -0800 Portland Mercury
Hmmf. Didn't think so.
Posted by Wm. Steven Humphrey]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:48:23 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by guspasho]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:29:26 -0800 Portland Mercury
Also, Dan's posts get way more comments on Slog than they do here.
Posted by tODD]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:19:30 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:09:58 -0800 Portland Mercury
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/…
Posted by Spaceman]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:36:57 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Fruit Cup]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:24:08 -0800 Portland Mercury