300 WORDS OR LESS 06.02.09

Bowtie Optional

"Aggregation" has replaced "synergy" as the favorite buzzword people use to sound like they know something about the Internet. It was a word used by Tucker Carlson last week when he showed up at the Heritage Foundation bloggers luncheon to announce that his proposed Web site, TheDailyCaller.com, would become the "Huffington Post of the Right."
As the late Lewis Grizzard once said, "You Can't Put No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock ’n’Roll" and, when it comes to aggregation, I've been rockin' since Tucker Carlson was still attending a fancy New England prep school.
Back in the day, we called it "compiling briefs." In 1986 my first newspaper editor handed me a stack of press releases and said, "Get to work." For more than two decades, my hard-earned prowess as an "aggregator" of news stood me in good stead, and has carried over into a new career in the blogosphere, where friends now call me Mr. Million Hits. Excuse the boast, but it ain't braggin' once you've done it.
Michelle Malkin warned Carlson that blogging is not as easy as it looks, and if Carlson thinks his TV fame will translate into easy success on the Internet, he may be in for a rude awakening.
Three weeks to develop a group blog? How about three days?
NTCNews doesn't have deep-pocket investors or a big-name TV pundit to garner free publicity from the Wall Street Journal. We don't hang out with Tina Brown. Blogging is neither rocket science nor brain surgery, and whatever it is that Tucker Carlson proposes to do at his site . . . well, it had better not suck.
We've got a Blogspot platform. He's got a bowtie. Good luck with that, preppy boy. Time to rock 'n' roll.
-- RSM