I am leaving BTJ to blog at WIM
Many of you have heard the big news that James Mirtle, one of the four founding fathers of the hockey blogosphere (in my opinion), left his humble abode at Blogger to become the hockey manager at SBN and now blogs there at From the Rink.
Over the past year, I have tried to divide my blogging attention to BTJ and Winging It In Motown over at SBN. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to make both successful and I feel that both blogs have suffered over the past year because of my attempt to do so. I had been thinking of consolidating my blogging efforts and Mirtle’s decision to join SBN made my decision even easier.
I believe that under Mirtle, SBN can become a fantastic hockey blogging platform and the current software is amazing for game threads. It even allows readers to make their own FanShots or FanPosts and I can then promote them to the front page allowing readers more interaction. As a result, I am leaving BTJ to solely blog Red Wings hockey at Winging It In Motown. It was a hard decision to make (after spending almost 4 years blogging here at BTJ) and I even consulted my advertisers here about it.
You will now find a mesh of my Wings blogging at WIM with more BTJ-feature posts like Behind the Blog returning as well as the newsy posts and game threads already common to WIM.
So I’m asking all of the BTJ readers to please add WIM to your RSS reader or to your list of blogs you read on a daily/weekly basis. Mirtle is asking for all of the SBN blogs to boost their weekly post totals so content will be increasing over there and we are even hoping to add another WIM blogger or two so if you would like to join Joe and I at WIM, please send James an email.
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5 Responses to “I am leaving BTJ to blog at WIM”
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October 21st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
“Behind the Blog returning”
Yesssssss.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Sounds like a smart decision - good luck on the new endeavor!
October 21st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
I know it’s tough to give up your own site, but it’s pretty good over at SB Nation. As you said, the hockey network at SBN is about to blow up with Mirtle coming on, so this is a good decision. Looking forward to seeing what you’ll do with WIM.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Earl- Yep, it’s back! The first one will be this upcoming Monday.
Steve- Thank you!
Ian- Yep, I’m looking forward to being a bigger part of SBN.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Thank goodness you chose one lucky site.
It’s not all that easy keeping track of so many blogs, either! Good luck!