Comments on: Growing pains at OhMyNews http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/ It's all work, work, work Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:02:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Are we all just after some attention? at SimonWaldman.net http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/#comment-9840 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:41:17 +0000 http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/#comment-9840 [...] As I mentioned when wittering on about OhMyNews (and as Robb Montgomery followed up in a comment) - that site’s initial success was completely intertwined with the political landscape in South Korea at the time. I sense that like successful magazines capture the mood of the moment (Loaded, Heat and Grazia in the UK) online activity succeeds not because of great programming (that just choses winning implementation from losing) but because it chimes with the mood and needs of the time. [...] […] As I mentioned when wittering on about OhMyNews (and as Robb Montgomery followed up in a comment) - that site’s initial success was completely intertwined with the political landscape in South Korea at the time. I sense that like successful magazines capture the mood of the moment (Loaded, Heat and Grazia in the UK) online activity succeeds not because of great programming (that just choses winning implementation from losing) but because it chimes with the mood and needs of the time. […]

]]> by: simon.waldman http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/#comment-8933 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:32:04 +0000 http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/#comment-8933 Hi Robb - I would feel more comfortable making that claim if I was anything like an expert in Korean politics and recnt history - but the theory strikes a chord with me. OhMy was a digital manifestation of something happening at the time in S Korea. The question is - what is happening that other hit such as MySpace are digital manifestations of? Hi Robb - I would feel more comfortable making that claim if I was anything like an expert in Korean politics and recnt history - but the theory strikes a chord with me. OhMy was a digital manifestation of something happening at the time in S Korea.

The question is - what is happening that other hit such as MySpace are digital manifestations of?

]]> by: Robb Montgomery http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/#comment-8247 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:54:23 +0000 http://www.simonwaldman.net/blog/2007/03/30/growing-pains-at-ohmynews/#comment-8247 Simon, Thanks for the OhMy update. Small world. I was with you in that tiny Seoul newsroom with you at the WEF event. You didn't mention this - but I wonder - do you think the populist national political drama that took place in Korea 2005 fed a lot of the early OhMy success? Both in terms of who was contributing as well as the networked distribution methods they popularized? Simon,
Thanks for the OhMy update. Small world. I was with you in that tiny Seoul newsroom with you at the WEF event.

You didn’t mention this - but I wonder - do you think the populist national political drama that took place in Korea 2005 fed a lot of the early OhMy success? Both in terms of who was contributing as well as the networked distribution methods they popularized?

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