The War over PJ Media

One of the most interesting things that has been happening in the recent past in the Blogosphere is the creation of PJ Media which was briefly known as Open Source Media.

I have been following this story for a while and have not written about it for several reasons (see disclosure at the bottom), but it seems to just go on and on. Not PJ Media itself but the controversy surrounding it. Now as you know if you are a long time reader (both of you) I love a controversy especially when it mutates into a full fledged Blog powered flame war.

Not since the Moxie-Moxiepop war have I seen such involvement and venom splashing across the HTML powered pages of so many blogs and their comments. As I have done in previous cases I am going to post a roadmap to bring people up to date. I do this as a public service and because I see the whole thing as kind of funny. There some things connected to it that are indeed not funny and some words have been written that should not have been however in the larger scheme of what is going on in the world ,ie TWOT this is just a sideshow.

I mearly report what I am seeing and I will let you the reader decide for yourself what the truth of the matter is.

Key background can be gotten from Dennis the Peasant

Update: I actually started writting this piece a while ago and as I have said things have continued to move,, much more at Dennis's site.

Then you can reac the Wikipedia entries here and here.

Steve H. has a post here.

Winds of change has a post here

One of the key players who has gotten involved in this little comedy oddly enough is Moxie herself. Really she is not a key player but she has become one because she refuses to back down and she has generated more HTML than a lot of the other players.
Moxie latest post with tons of comments can be found here.

Other Moxie posts can be found (deep breath), here , here , here, here, here and here, though I probably missed a few.

Last but not least Ann Althouse is caught up in all this and has post that you can read here and here.

Quote of the day:
Somewhere recently I saw one of those Internet quizzes asked what character from Shakespeare you would be. I didn't take it because I know if I could be any character it would be Puck.


One of my favorites lines in any movie is Mickey Rooney saying:

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Full Disclosure:
I did at some point in the past sign a non disclosure form during the creation stages of PJ Media. I also not too far in the past got an email from them telling me that I was invited to the Launch and that a snail mail invitation was on the way, which never came. I would not have been able to go anyway but as in a lot of things in life it is the thought or in this case the lack of thought that counts