I am digging Cerrone’s other site and found the video below to be an interesting topic. Â I don’t know if any of you will care about this topic but as a blogger I find it interesting: Â Should bloggers be credentialed?
As for me, I don’t do this as some sort of play to get free tickets. Â (In fact, I’m still hoping Mr. Howard will take me up on the invitation to sit in Promenade Left with me – I’m buying) Â However, I’m a human and if I had some sort of pass that got me in, I bet I’d go to more games….but I probably would also just use my tickets on the weekend to sit there as a civilian with my kid.
Would I be comfortable in the press box with Marty Noble glaring at me? Â I don’t think I even want to go to the press box or the locker room. Â Maybe I’d just get in and then take pictures of caps like I always do.
(Also being a human, this would become “Budweiser’s Mets Police” in a heartbeat if they wrote a check.)
I do think it’s a neat idea for the teams to have some sort of relationship with some of the bigger or influential blogs (someone else can decide what defines those parameters) because the internet doesn’t seem to be leaving.
At what point is a blog mature enough to be considered?
Should the Mets be expected to interact with someone who started last week, probably not? Â But someone like On the Black works hard at his craft every day, he seems like the sort of person they should interact with.
I’m rambling (shocker) – curious on your non-blogger thoughts. (The video may step on the sidebar on smaller monitors)
Vaguely related, I’m thinking of doing a one-off blogtalkradio type thing. Anyone care? Waste of time? Honesty appreciated, you won’t hurt my feelings if you say nobody cares.
I don’t listen to videos/webcasts. I know I’m weird. I almost never watch youtube videos. I think i’ve almost developed a little ADD because I just don’t feel like sitting there for a couple of minutes watching video without doing anything else. I dunno, maybe I should. Wouldn’t mind chatting with other bloggers about the Mets really..
anyway, from a fellow bloggers standpoint, I don’t really know how I feel about credentials. I, like you, applied for that whole online pressbox thingy and got rejected. (Wonder if we banded together to form a bloc of Mets bloggers (BOMB!) or something..but whatever.) The cleveland Indians apparently have created a blogger press box, which is interesting. That covers what would basically be a huge issue in NY, screening. What would classify as ‘acceptable’ for a blog? a certain amount of posts? years of history? some sort of google pagerank qualification? A full background check?
Maybe something like the Indians are doing. No clubhouse access, but still admission.
I do know the Mets are increasingly paying attention to blogs this year. You see the hints of it out there. A Mets employee went to my blog, found the contact info, and emailed me.
Ceetar re podcasts and videos I’m like you. I tend to prefer short burst reading. I love Twitter.
However for some reason I keep having the thought to do a one-off. I dunno if anyone cares or I could just type the smae words.
I do enjoy engaging with people whether on this comment section or twitter.
Maybe when I finish the new home office and have somewhere to hide.
The Mets lack a serious podcast. A once or twice a week podcast covering the major issues for the week would be a welcome addition to the Metosphere.
Considering the number of traditional media outlets covering the Mets on a daily basis, I’m not going to blogs for that sort of reading. I’m looking for the fan perspective or a different kind of analysis than I’m getting from the beat writers.
Bloggers don’t need credentials to fill either of those roles. Maybe I’d feel differently if there were fewer traditional media outlets covering the team.
Hmm. Yeah, obviously us bloggers don’t really need the access to do what we do, and it’d be silly to try to ‘compete’ with the beat writers and newspapers, of which there are so many.
But we do provide valuable information and insight from an actual fan point of view. I like Shannon’s idea a while back to include bloggers in some way on press releases and news blurbs. Keep us in the picture, keep the dialogue open, even if that doesn’t mean giving us free access to the park or any access to players.
There is no reason they can’t give us orange (or blue) credentials that are very obviously not allowed in certain areas, but good for other things if they chose to go that route.
Ceetar yep you nailed my feelings.
Say they announce Keith Hernandez day. Obviously I will write about it, and being real I’ve been fortunate enough that the site has followers.
Just send me the release when u send it to everyone else. I’m just gonna write about it 5 minutes later, and the official release will have definitely correct info an preferred language.
I’m not looking to scam tickets or sit lower. My whole blog is about the upper deck.
I like this Islanders blogger box being discussed on Twitter @metspolice.
You guys got denied for the MLBpressbox.com? That’s weird. I applied and got accepted just based on my Bleacher Report history. You guys write way more than me.
Also as someone whose blog launched last week, I take offense to that. Wait..no I don’t.
Injoy the floating feeling.
Randy yes pressbox denies me. If I recall properly I didn’t meetvthe qualifications. I emailed to ask what they were and they didn’t respond. Maybe I will ask again.