MediaShift Emerges

Right on schedule, MediaShift, the new PBS blog manned by Mark Glaser, launched today with The Revolution Will Not Be Advertised. Good first post. And, the site allows comments. It's cool to see him get his own platform so to speak. I look forward to a lot of good reading.

Here's a bit from his first post:

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I ask you to RISE UP, I ask you to take this oath, this PLEDGE with me, to swear on a stack of Bibles that you will NOT sit on your overstuffed couch waiting and WAITING for your TV shows to appear!

They rise as one.

Repeat after me. We the MEDIA-LOVING, MEDIA-DRENCHED people of these United States, in order to form a more perfect UNION complete with viewer participation, establish a JUST media distribution system, insure domestic tranquility and the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO ZAP COMMERCIALS, provide for our common defense against MEDIA BIGWIGS who seek to control our lives, promote the general welfare and QUALITY PROGRAMMING in which we have a VOICE, secure the blessings of liberty and FREEDOM to blog to our hearts’ content, do ordain and establish that we will WATCH, LISTEN, READ and WRITE what we want when we want it, on OUR OWN TERMS!

A cheer goes up, the organ plays, and the Preacherman bows his head in prayer.

Heh. You go Glaser.

His second post is a little less boisterous, but worth a read as well. In the post (Why Do I Blog?), he talks about his column for OJR and how it evolved from blogesque stream of consciousness to in-depth reporting.

Also of note on the site is the Top 5 - people, trends and tech on MediaShift's radar.

Here's the RSS feed if you want to add it to your reader. I'd recommend it.

The name's kinda cool too...

Any other post-launch thoughts?

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