Our blog pages have been reorganized. It was part of that reformat/ reboot both Geoff and I discussed this morning. My bottom line: I don't like it. The new blog pages exposes the weak side of the site. Plus, instead of just the five or six blogs we had before, most of which were never updated, now we have more than a dozen. Whatever was worthwhile is now going to be lost among even more dead pages.

This is not good.

For some time at the Daily News I've been saying we need to have a “come to Jesus” meeting with the bloggers. Anyone who abandons their column in the middle of a sports season: you should be off the island. There are lots of people out there who are interested in writing about major sports teams, we don't need you.

A column that hasn't had an entry in “two years” or “about a year”? Off the island. Already, that means we'd need writers for the Fire, the Sox, the Bulls and probably the Bears too (one post in the last six months? Stopped writing in November? I know it's the Bears, but really).

Indie City, a music blog, open. Looking for lost love? Hmmn... Me too. Geoff should just open that up to anyone who wants to post and let's see what happens. It could get real interesting.

Chicago's Funny Like That only has one post. One post, but three months ago. Come on, step it up. Haven't you been reading Schadenfreude lately? Or even better, the Daily Daley? My god, even the Mayor of Chicago is into standup comedy. There is no end of humor in this city.

On-lineclinic, what is apparently a series of posts about various medications, made its debut today. There is also a blog called onlineclinic here. They seem to be the same. In any case it needs to find its voice. It could be interesting. But, at the moment I'd go elsewhere to find information on medications. Since it just finished a series on Cialis, Levitra and Viagra, I'd suggest a follow-up on VigRx, Enzyte and ExtenZe. It would be the double-trifecta of male sexuality products. Cool!

Finally, I'm certain someone out there wants to take over The City Desk. We can't leave Whet Moser and Ben Joravsky to rule the Internet tube thing alone can we? Look at the brilliant but simple idea of a Daily Daley. There are so many great targets, so much to ridicule. And I know that when you get home at night you laugh and cry about whatever the city has done to you now. One year since the last entry? Please.

And, David McClendon's blog? David is gone. He's left the building and is writing his own blog (he's asked us not to discuss it yet. He's still developing its voice). Let it go. Put it into the archives or at least note that it isn't being updated. The same for the undeveloped blogs that appear: Ballot Box, Big Lawbowski, A Dad's Notes and The Picket Line.

So... Gentle reader, do you want to write about the Sox, the Bulls, the Bears, the Fire? Discuss Indie music or at least local music and the comedy scene? Would you like to poke Whet Moser and Ben Joravsky in the eye and support the administration's bid to host the 2016 Olympics? Maybe you are looking at that column name from the paragraph of undeveloped blogs and think, “I could write that.” Well I can't help you. Really, you need to convince Geoff Dougherty you can do this. But you can write to me anyway. What the hey, it can't hurt, right? Blogs here pay nothing, you receive very little support and, best of all, since you're writing a blog you can join me in the Blog Ghetto and get insulted by PR people too!

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