I battle comment spam continually on this site. And part of the reason is that there are people willing to pay for this crap. Yelvington explains some of the reasoning behind this dark art.

Yelvington weighs in on the latest round of “let’s get rid of anonymous comments” go round.

“Given all the information out there, the sports writer’s value has shifted from writing about what happened to writing about the story behind the story or about how a special play was run or about how a player got from that middle-school sandlot game to the biggest stage in college basketball or how a coach is able to win consistently over the years when the players change every year.”

Penn State’s Collegian faces off with a rival blog, Onward State. Note the different opinions about linking. The editor at the Collegian needs to get a clue.

Rupert Murdoch latest to attempt to get online audiences to pay for content. Good luck with that.