Bwog-Spectrum Relationship
The Bwog and the Spectrum, founded in 2006 and 2010, respectively, apparently have an interesting relationship.
In any case, many students read both the Spectrum and the Bwog, as both blogs provide a unique and fresh aspect on campus life. Naturally, both Spectrum and Bwog occasionally have comments from readers threatening to switch to the competition when those readers think a post is bad.
Speccie Comments on Bwog
In the weeks that followed Spectrum's establishment, Speccies freely and annoyingly utilized the medium of Bwog comments to advertise their budding new endeavor. The Bwog[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Sometimes (not known how often), they lied. For instance, on a 2010 Room Selection entry, user "Ben Cotton" wrote:
Important New Housing Info:
EC Exclusion suites floors 12 and 14 apparently do not have working dishwashers or refrigerators any more and will not be replaced this summer. This is a completely unforeseen mistake by housing services, but they say that renovations were not done in time and they do not have new/refurbished appliances on the way for these 2 floors.
Ben
-check out the spectrum blog[7]
What was said in the comment turned out not to be true, though this comment could have easily come from someone pretending to be Cotton.
Bwog, for its part, created mild "controversy" when it deleted several comments[8] referencing Spectrum in a post "Freaking Out? Free Roti?"[9] on a post which was published one day after Spectrum was launched. The perceived censorship caused a bit of an outcry from Bwog commenters.
i am not from the same IP address, but i also think it’s sort of lame to delete comments saying spectrum is good when spectrum leaves up positive comments about bwog. it’s not really advertising if it’s a conversation, right? and don’t you want comments to be a dialogue?[10]
However, comments were deleted if and only if they advertised the Spectrum. This business as usual for the Bwog, which normally deletes posts advertising other sites. Nonetheless, in order to cater to Spectrum-boosters, the Bwog has since let Spectrum-centric comments stand unmolested.
Misc
As of October 18, 2010, Spectator's website has a Alexa ranking of 80,113 while Bwog has a ranking of 1,019,633. Those rankings, though, are for the entire Internet and not just Columbia affiliates.
See Also
External Links
References
- ↑ http://bwog.net/2010/03/15/overseen-on-facebook-home-sweet-home#comment-192433
- ↑ http://bwog.net/2010/04/02/breaking-no-40s-on-40#comment-194644
- ↑ http://bwog.net/2010/04/24/free-food-nomnomnom#comment-199103
- ↑ http://bwog.net/2010/04/24/free-food-nomnomnom#comment-199041
- ↑ etc.
- ↑ http://bwog.net/2010/04/30/baseball-team-wins-gehrig-division#comment-200104
- ↑ http://bwog.net/2010/04/07/bwoglines-housing-is-upon-us#comment-195851
- ↑ http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/03/blwog-war-breaks-out-in-morningside-heights/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2010/03/02/freaking-out-free-roti/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2010/03/02/freaking-out-free-roti/#comments
