One of the things that bloggers strive to achieve is visibility. One type of visibility is amongst our peers. That can be fairly easy to achieve and is much more in our control. We can contact other sites and let them know about our latest post. Another harder to achieve visibility is amongst the mainstream media. Acceptance of bloggers amongst the mainstream media seems to vary greatly by market. Twins bloggers are very well accepted and even get airtime on Twins pregame shows. This isn’t the case everywhere though. In Detroit bloggers tried to change this by coming together.
Last year, the Internet Baseball Writers Association was created to “raise the visibility of internet based sports writers.” About that same time myself, Brian Borawski, and Ryan Sosin began discussing the formation of a group for Detroit Tiger bloggers with similar intentions. Due to pressing time constraints the only thing we developed in 2004 was a name - Detroit Independent Baseball Scribes (DIBS). Continue reading »
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