We asked the new voice on the Boston Arts blogging scene a few questions on how he got Morrissey Blvd. to lend him a corner of the web, and what he thought of the other characters in the local arts blog scene. Full wrap up follows after the jump.
Geoff Edgers has been on the Boston Globe staff covering the arts for four years (since 2002) and watched as the TV buffs, movie buffs, and hipsters in music all got their own blogs. Sports and Business have been working the blogosphere in some way for even longer at Boston.com. Trying to come up with some fancy French way of saying the time has come, we’ve only got “___ est arrive” hoping that you’ll be able to fill in the blank. With Exhibitionist, after he’s cleared the standards and practices board at Boston.com, he hopes to elevate arts coverage to the same level the Sox and City Hall get. We know, we know, it’s impossible – but one has to start somewhere. Edgers tells us that “Reviews reach one part of our audience. Features and news reach another.” Right he is: Exhibitionist goes for the short post - pulling from news, reviews, and images to engage whichever audience happens on the site.
So what’s the advantage to being the Exhibitionist? Well, simple. He gets to blog as a part of his paid, full-time job. Bostonist spends lunch hours, early mornings, and after work hours pulling together things that we find amusing, so it’s good to know that the mainstream folks appreciate the others out there who don’t get paid to do what they’re doing – like Big Red, Modern Kicks, HubArts*, etc…though being on Boston.com he probably is victim of more criticism as part of the newspaper-of-record institution than any standalone blog would be.
*Special nod to Joel for his new blog tagline "Built with 100% substandard concrete."
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