Pajamas Media, briefly known as Open Source Media, is a startup company founded in 2004 by mystery writer and Huffington Post blogger Roger L. Simon and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs "with the intention of... aggregating blogs to increase corporate advertising and creating our own professional news service," [1], as well as "a new method of fact-checking." [2] Image File history File links Pajamas_Media_logo. ... A startup company is a company with a limited operating history. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Huffington Post is a group weblog and news site started by Arianna Huffington on May 9, 2005. ... Roger Lichtenberg Simon is a mystery author, blogger and screenwriter living in California. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Little Green Footballs. ... Little Green Footballs (LGF) is a principally political blog run by California web designer Charles Johnson. ... A fact checker is a person whose job consists of checking factual assertions made in news copy to determine whether they are correct. ...

History

Pajamas Media completed its first round of venture capital funding on November 14, 2005; its launch and official rebranding as "Open Source Media" took place November 16. Launch festivities included a keynote address by former New York Times journalist Judith Miller. November 14 is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 47 days remaining until the end of the year. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Judith Miller Judith P. Miller (born January 2, 1948), is an American journalist. ...

Pajamas Media Board members include many prominent bloggers and journalists, including "Instapundit" Glenn Reynolds, CNBC's Larry Kudlow, Michael Barone of U.S. News & World Report, David Corn of The Nation and Claudia Rosett (who helped break the United Nations' "Oil for Food" controversy). Instapundit is a United States political weblog produced by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee. ... Glenn Reynolds (born August 27, 1960) is Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee, and is best known as the Internets Instapundit. ... Larry Kudlow is the Economics editor of National Review and the co-host of CNBCs Kudlow and Cramer with Jim Cramer. ... Michael Barone is a political expert and commentator. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... David Corn is a political correspondent for The Nation and author of the book as well as the political novel Deep Background and the biography Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIAs Crusades. ... The Nation logo The Nation is a weekly left-liberal periodical devoted to politics and culture. ... Claudia Rossett is an American writer and journalist. ... The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... The Oil-for-Food Programme was established by the United Nations in 1996 to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine and the like. ...

Missteps

Seminal blogger Luke Ford had been signed up as a PJM/OSM pundit but was dropped the next day when it was discovered that he had resumed blogging the adult film industry. [3] Luke Ford is a Los Angeles-based porn gossip columnist. ... Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. ...

When the Open Source brand was launched, it claimed that the Open Source radio program had allowed it to use its name and an Internet subdomain, opensourcemedia.net, that wasn't in use at the time. Christopher Lydon, founder of the Open Source, said that wasn't true despite revised text on OSM's site. Further investigation revealed that the production company, Open Source Media, Inc., had in fact already applied for a trademark on the name. To avoid further conflict, OSM returned to the name Pajamas Media, on November 22, 2005. In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. ... A trademark, trade mark, ™ or ®[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by an organization to uniquely identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to distinguish the organization and its products or services from those of other organizations. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Logos

The Open Source Media logo

Some critics noted that the OSM logo was similar to that of Lucent Technologies and that used by The Philadelphia Inquirer for philly.com, its Web portal[4]. Image File history File links Open_Source_Media_logo. ... Image File history File links Open_Source_Media_logo. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... On September 30, 1996, AT&T spun off its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc. ... The Philadelphia Inquirer is one of a two Knight Ridder newspaper duopoly daily for the Philadelphia area. ... A Web portal is a site on the World Wide Web that typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content. ...

The Pajamas Media logo was also criticized [5] for depicting what appears to be a bathrobe or dressing gown, rather than actual pajamas. It has also been criticized for lacking visual power and interest. A dragon robe from Qing Dynasty of China A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. ... Look up Pajamas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Criticism

Starting in October 2004, Kenton E. Kelly, who blogs as Dennis the Peasant, entered into discussions with Roger Simon to begin a venture called Tulip Advertising, an arrangement terminated by Kelly upon learning that Simon had launched Pajamas Media on April 29, 2005. Since then, Kelly, a Certified Public Accountant in Columbus, Ohio has been highly critical of Pajamas' business plan [6] or what he feels is the lack thereof. He claims that Simon and Johnson have not even begun to consider how they will attract advertising to the site and that they seem to think they won't need to, based on his observation of a lack of strategy, missed deadlines, and "general sloppiness." [7] He also questioned whether OSM would attract real readership when the readers of many of the blogs to be aggregated could already read their favorite bloggers at their own sites for free. Roger Simon later responded on his own blog, noting that there was never much of a partnership between Kelly and himself, stating "no contracts were ever signed. No investment[s]...made. Nothing happened." April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are qualified accountants in the United States who have passed the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination and have met additional state education and experience requirements for certification as a CPA. In most U.S. states, only CPAs who are licensed are able to provide to the... Nickname: The Arch City The Discovery City Location in the state of Ohio, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Ohio Counties Franklin, Delaware, and Fairfield Mayor Michael B. Coleman (D) Area    - City 550. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus Largest metro area Cleveland Area  Ranked 34th  - Total 44,825 sq mi (116,096 km²)  - Width 220 miles (355 km)  - Length 220 miles (355 km)  - % water 8. ... A business plan is a summary of how a business or entrepreneur intends to organize an entrepreneurial endeavor and implement activities necessary and sufficient for the venture to succeed. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Billboards and street advertising in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, (2005) Advertising is paid communication through a non-personal medium in which the sponsor is identified and the message is controlled. ...

Another blogger, Jeff Jarvis, himself a principal in another blogging startup, questioned the demand for advertising on the sites of "mostly conservative political bloggers." [8] Defenders of Pajamas Media responded that Kelly is simply a bitter ex-partner who couldn't get his way, and Jarvis has associations with other media startups which might potentially compete with PJM. Jeff Jarvis (born 1954) is an American journalist. ...

When law blogger Ann Althouse also aired a public critique of the OSM business model, Johnson responded by directing his commenters to her post, provoking a vicious flame war which lasted the better part of a week and prompted one LGF loyalist to denounce Althouse as a "Berkeley house whore." That in turn led to a dispute between Althouse and feminist bloggers on the left when she complained that they were insufficiently attentive to the attacks on her. Ann Althouse (born 1951) is an American law professor and blogger. ... This article is about the Internet meaning of the word flaming. For other meanings, and meanings of the word flame, see Flame. ... Ann Althouse (born 1951) is an American law professor and blogger. ...

See also

• Blog
• Citizen journalism
• Pajamahadeen
• Collaborative Blog

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Citizen journalism, also known as participatory journalism, is the act of citizens playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information according to the seminal report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information, by Shayne Bowman and Chris... Pajamahadeen is a word play on Mujahideen. ... A collaborative blog is a type of weblog which publishes posts written by multiple users. ...

External links

Official sites

• Pajamas Media
• Participating Blogs

Old media coverage

• Christian Science Monitor : A one-stop shop for the 'best' blogs
• CNET : Open Source Media group met with harsh criticism
• The NY Sun : Three Political Web Logs Make a Run for the Mainstream
• PR Newswire : Pajamas Media Closes $3.5 Million Venture Round
• Tech Central Station : The Rise of Pajamas Media
• Wired : Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs?

New media coverage

• La Shawn Barber : Pajamas Media Launch
• Business Logs : Open Source Media Launches To Negative Press
• Buzzmachine : I don’t wear PJs
• Crooked Timber : Pajamarama
• Outside the Beltway : Open Source (Pajamas) Media: An Early Assessment
• Jim Lowney : Party Like It's 1999 — account of the launch afterparty.
• Protein Wisdom : Liveblogging the Pajamas Media launch festivities from the W Hotel in New York, 4
• Rightwing News : The Debut Of Open Source Media AKA Pajamas Media
• Stop the ACLU : Open Source Confusion?

Feuds and flamewars

• Ann Althouse : Taking off the Pajamas: now, what do you see?
• Houblog : Open Letter to the Former Pajamas Media
• Matt Welch : A Media Entrepreneur of Taste

Satire/spoofs

• Pyjamas Media (nee Open Sore Media) - Site spoofing Pajamas Media (formerly Open Source Media). Site claims to be "true" open source blog by allowing free, open registration to anyone.^{[citation needed]}