So I'm looking at the front page of Pajamas Media (happily renamed away from OSM) now, and the current panel discussion is headlined: What should Pajamas Media be? Questions of this kind are usually answered before you get $3.5 million in venture capital funding. But since they're thinking about it, I'll make a suggestion: Pajamas Media should be a blog whose news aggregator isn't fed in part by the Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese government's propaganda arm. For that matter, is there any reason why you'd want your blog to have a news aggregator? Are you under the impression that political junkies hardcore enough to read your blog will settle on it as their one-stop-shop for news? (No, but the venture capital guys are. And they like the phrase "one-stop-shop" almost as much as they like "open source".)
This is the point in the post where snark should give way to intelligent thought. Unfortunately, I don't have any intelligent thoughts to offer. So let me refer you to Laura Turner, who does.
