Monday, 29 June 2009

  • I Find It a Bit Odd

    What gives?

    Does xanga not give a crap about current events not associated with Jon and Kate Plus Eight? I mean it's not everyday that the King of Pop dies.

    I checked back at various points yesterday and today, interested to see what posts xanga chose to feature about MJ's death and nothing. I really was curious to see what people wrote.

    Does anyone else find it really odd that there wasn't at least one featured post devoted to this story. It just makes xanga seem so amateur. So irrelevant. Like the whole world is in one place and xanga is someplace else entirely.

    I am not saying xanga should have ground to a halt and paid endless tribute, but nothing? No acknowledgement?

    Just seems a little weird is all.

Comments (53)

  • True, I found that quite odd too. I guess they didn't want to ruffle any feathers or something.

  • maybe you should...(tapping nails on desk)

  • Surely at least ONE member of the Xanga team thought a featured tribute would be the least they could do, and I saw a lot of good posts about MJ.

  • i find it odd as well. i get that most people are teens or early twenties here, but you'd think out of some of those so-called "aspiring" writers, there would be some budding journalists who recognize the power of blogging as a form of media.

    a lot of people are so caught up in getting material featured on the front page that they fail to realize nobody on the rest of the internet cares about their opinion on xanga, religion, abortion or what they think about burqas. yes, over  a 1,000 views seems like a lot, but i've had just as many hits, mostly from people offf xanga,  on a post about rajon rondo.

  • So many posts to choose from, maybe they got a bit flustered.

  • Yeah... sometimes I really do think the Xanga staff lives underground some place where they're unaffected by such 'trivial' news of us "top-siders".Meh.. maybe they're just trying to stay impartial? Just kidding... Xanga thrives on discord so yeah, it's weird there isn't at least one post. Hmm

  • I found it odd as well, but then I've noticed the front page hasn't really changed that much the entire month.  I've also seen several MJ posts with enough recs that they should've made the front page. For that matter, there hasn't been any farrah posts featured either, and I've seen a few of those.

  • I found it a bit odd. hmm...

  • I think it comes to show how insulated Xanga is from the larger world. Its strength is its ability to cultivate tight-knit communities-- this very benifit becomes a detriment when it comes to considerations of quality and relevnecy. In this small pond, the average blogger is heard and he matters. But it's not the average blogger who writes lavishly or is attuned to the larger world.

  • I agree, it is weird. I saw more pulses about him than actual posts.

  • It's possible that there were just so many posts on it that none ended up on the top blogs. 

  • The closest thing to a featured post about Michael Jackson was on Revelife. But it wasn't exactly about Michael Jackson himself.

  • I didn't think about it much, but now that you mention it, it does seem a bit odd.

  • I thought the same thing! I don't feel like I have enough knowledge to do a good enough job paying respect to him, but I was really surprised it wasn't all over Xanga. Then again, it is on every news channel... maybe people just didn't want to overload Xanga with it? I'm off to find a good blog about him and recommend it! Maybe someone lesser known wrote something pretty good.

  • uh DAVE.. Natalia wrote about it herself.. so yeah some of the Xanga Team did address it, just not in the way you'd like

  • I didn't even know who Jon and Kate were until they started talking about a divorce

  • Yeah, that was bizarre. Even Xanga-John wrote an MJ post, but nothing on the front page. Were they afraid that news would come out that he wasn't really dead??

  • I saw a couple posts, none that I read were very well written (nor were they very nice) so maybe that was the reason for not featuring, they were mostly negative.

  • I didn't notice. But that is a bit weird.

  • What about Farrah Fawcett? And Ed McMahon!

  • There was one post on revelife about MJ dying. I didn't read it, so I don't know the content of it, but there was a post.

  • @josiebunny - it wasn't really about him per se. more along the lines of people judging whether one goes to heaven, or not.

  • @the_caramel_macchiato - Ah. That shouldn't have been the only post he was mentioned in. It's a shame.

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  • Yea, I think its weird too. Usually with a topic such as this they would feature two different view points, or at least one relating post. 

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