We often play media critic but rarely will we put down an automotive blog simply because we like to play nice. But
a new trend of this year’s auto show was reporters being “forced” to blog as I overheard one say. Sorry to burden you
with the new form of online media but if you don’t want to blog don’t do it. Sigh…anyway, the highest profile of the
group was AutoWeek’s blog. Their “Postcards From The Frozen North” was
interesting because there were behind the scenes glimpses that we couldn’t get, mainly from Richard Chang. Throughout
his posts we got more of the backstage feel of what was going on. The other three guys did OK but most of the posts
were too long to hold any interest and lacked photos. Click below for the rest of the auto show
bloggers.
Popular Mechanics has an automotive blog and it kept
tabs throughout the show but by day. That?s not very up to date guys. The link to previous posts is also down. A good
idea was a photo blog but the large pictures were often too dark, although I can?t speak of all my great photos can
I?
USA Today featured a ?Reporter?s
Notebook? that read less like a blog and more like a miscellaneous section of everything that couldn?t fit in the
feature stories.
The Detroit Blog got credentialed for the auto show even though the
blogger says he knows nothing about cars. Autoblog had to petition to get full access to the show, and did so
successfully of course. But still?the spiel of ?well the show organizers have never heard of your site before? didn?t
make sense to us when we got the original restricted passes. Anyway, it?s a humorous
entry on the whole
show from a complete outsider. Just one post, but funny as hell.