Yesterday's LA Times featured an article about the ongoing trend of "maturation" amongst some of the net's most infamous blogs. The story refers specifically to the phenomenon as it exists within the sports criticism and opinion blogosphere--but it raises the kind of tough questions not only pertinent to sports.
Basically, as sites like Kissing Suzy Kolber and Deadspin have grown in readership and buzz-clout, they've often faced harsh opposition to their brand of spoof and gossip-fueled reporting. While the more obstinate sites have responded either with indifference or a hostile I-do-what-I-want, others have ostensibly acquiesced to these "post-Buzz Bissinger" expectations by shifting (or at least taming) their site's approach, as well as by assuming greater responsibility for what's posted.
The result has been a style of blogging that's less vitriolic and reactionary in tone, and instead more weighed and reserved in conviction. Of course, as always, there's plenty of split opinion regarding such changes. Read on here.
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