For extra humor, you should dig up that quote from Obama where he says that Daily Kos is "boring."

my advertising is WAY down since advertisers know that no one will pay attention to anything that's not Obama or Clinton.

Maybe that isn't the problem. Maybe the problem is that advertisers do not want their product associated with the increasingly hysterical quality of the Orange Frat House. FDL, Eschaton and other liberal blogs seem to be holding their advertisers.

There has been several "Daily Kos is imploding diaries," but nobody can tell Kos anything.

if his site falls apart if he can get Obama on the top of the Dem ticket in November. What exactly Kos' animus against Hillary is I have no idea -- NOR DO I CARE, which has become my mantra for the GOS -- but it really is an Obamathon over there.

Kinda scary, actually, seeing how fast "new media" can follow "old media" into the tank.

The last thing he would acknowledge is that his ad revenue is down because his site has become an Obama Echo Chamber.

who tried to make them work, unless there are obvious and individual reasons to do so. why is it different for website owner/authors? in my old bartending days, we had a statistic useful in determining "loyalty" to an employer, those of us on circuit of constantly shifting job options and potential tip-mines: 90% of new bars/restaurants fail within five years of opening. i feel the same way about most blogs.

look, i went thru my own "kos is satan" phase and i've come full circle. i just don't care about him or his site that much. he is a nice guy and family man, he's flawed and imperfect, and he found himself thrust into a leadership position for the movement at a time when i don't think a blogging jesus christ would've been received without malice.

we didn't pick him as our leader. the SCLM, in all their arrogance and laziness and ignorance, decided that GOS was shorthand for all of us. and if that ever happens to you, i pity you, because i promise you, "you will fail." it's easy to blame markos for failing to remain Most Fashionable. but it's wrong. he could've devoted his site to the most progressive causes and ideas for the last 12 mos, and it would have had no impact on reversing a net-wide, politics-wide, evolution and transformation of the political blogosphere.

as i keep saying: i blog for myself, and no one else. i hope that's true for everyone here. it's nice to be read, it's nicer still to have guest posters and commenters. but i do not let that landscape of people and ideas define me.

because they at least tried to make their business work. What Kos has done, imo, is stray far from his original mission. This is why businesses have vision and mission statements: To let people know why they are doing what they do.

From the DK FAQ

What is the purpose of this site?

(Condensed from this diary written by kos in late 2004)

This is a Democratic blog, a partisan blog. One that recognizes that Democrats run from left to right on the ideological spectrum, and yet we're all still in this fight together. We happily embrace centrists like NDN's Simon Rosenberg and Howard Dean, conservatives like Martin Frost and Brad Carson, and liberals like John Kerry and Barack Obama. Liberal? Yeah, we're around here and we're proud. But it's not a liberal blog. It's a Democratic blog with one goal in mind: electoral victory. And since we haven't gotten any of that from the current crew, we're one more thing: a reform blog. The battle for the party is not an ideological battle. It's one between establishment and anti-establishment factions. And as I've said a million times, the status quo is untenable.

The aim of mission statements like this is to publicly declare the purpose, goals, products, markets, and philosophical views of the organization.

If he had stuck with his original mission--a reform blog--his site would not have become the full-throated Obama-walks-on-water-while-Hillary-is-Teh-Suck site.

... like riverdaughter.

Still, it's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and our hits are up.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

The diary I had stumbled on was an irrational Howard Dean is to blame for everything, including the designated hitter rule, post. They were far more interested in trashing him out of some personal animus and less interested in the kind of rational, peaceful discourse they claimed they wanted that it became clear it wasn't as hospitable a refuge as I had been led to believe. I don't need that kind of agita or bullshit.