Rob Neyer - Media Harbinger
In an aside, Joshua Topolsky, formerly of Engadget, holds up Rob Neyer joining SB Nation as a signal of quality and the way forward in internet publishing.
You could certainly do a lot worse than considering Rob Neyer to be a harbinger of coming changes in web-based media.
In the 1980s he was researching for a then still outside the mainstream Bill James, in the 1990s he became a full time web-only writer for ESPN, and was authoring his own baseball books by the 2000s (and pretty good ones too).
Neyer was probably the first writer posting stuff online almost everyday that I wanted to read every day. He writes clearly, has always given others credit and praise (with links!), and is quick (maybe too quick) to concede ignorance and equally fast in admitting his own mistakes.
And more important than being humble, Neyer has good taste. He is a professional appreciator in the cast of High Fidelity. I don’t have time to follow every recommendation, or even a small fraction of the ones he makes, but from Baseball Prospectus to books to movies to the choice cuts from other blogs, Neyer always serves up the best stuff.
My estimation of SB Nation (which I had always seen as Etsy for sports fans) increased right away when he joined up. My estimation of Topolsky is now up too.
Via DF.
