11/22/2005
OSM Media, LLC, formerly known as Pajamasmedia.com is changing its name back to Pajamasmedia.com. They are a great group of bloggers who are working to further the influence and professionalism of serious bloggers and I wish them well in their name re-change.
With that said, I am a LITTLE bit disappointed. Here is what they had to say regarding their name re-change:
Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company. “We could call it Pajamas Media,” we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface, who disparaged bloggers as a bunch of guys sitting around in their sleepwear. Well, we were as surprised as anyone when we managed to raise a significant amount of capital to form said company.
At our swanky launch party in the Rainbow Room at New York’s Rockefeller Center on November 16, we changed out of our “pajamas” both literally and figuratively. We went from being www.pajamasmedia.com to OSMâ„¢ Media, LLC, the OSM being short for Open Source Media. And oh, what a drubbing we took. Many, many readers pointed out to us that OSMâ„¢ was an oxymoron; the open source tech community expressed concern; and a very fine gentleman named Christopher Lydon at Open Source (www.radioopensource.org) politely pointed out that we might be trampling on his space. (We’re sending him a pair of warm, fuzzy slippers, a heartfelt apology, and his name back, as we speak.)
All of which, as it turns out, has led us to make a change for the better. We are re-assuming our identity as Pajamas Media. (Just give us a few days to sort the technical issues out.) In short, the whole experience of being caught with our pajamas down has been a bit embarrassing, but in the end, when we realized we could get our beloved name back, we were overjoyed. So a warm, hearty thanks to all of you who expressed your displeasure with our phony identity.
Pajamasmedia.com is a great name. At the same time, I liked their adoption of OSM Media because I originally coined the term back in September of 2004 in a post entitled, “The Rise of The Open Source Media (AKA, the Blogosphere).” In this article, I argued that the Blogosphere was actually a type of Open Source Media community similar to the Open Source software development community.
It was a post that received a great deal of attention and was actually republished in a couple of journals elsewhere. I still stand by my premise, one which was backed up by Hugh Hewitt in his excellent book entitled “Blog.” 
David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com
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