Knitting Blogs
The sheer oddness of the internet is what makes new media so interesting. Browsing the Technorati of the top 100 blogs shows that a knitting blog Yarn Harlot make the cut. Over at the Podcast.net ranking of the top 100 podcasts, you’ll fine Cast-On: A Podcast for Knitters. , a podcast about, as you might have guessed, knitting.
Knitting - its the future! The Gap and Hennes should watch out. At this rate, we’ll be making our own jumper soon.
The more serious point, of course, is that new media shows what people are really interested in - not what editors think they should be interested in. The newspaper style sections don’t have much about knitting in them, becuase the people who run them don’t think its cool. That just shows how out of touch with the market they probably are.
