You know, normally I’d be excited about discovering that SOHH now has hip hop bloggers and I was, two posts back. But now this whole shooting deal is dragging me down. Let me just add that I reduced the url from Media Chin-Check and found what is apparently a whole crew of bloggers at SOHH. There’s no news on their homepage so I guess I’ll follow up later, after I get some sleep. If these guys are getting paid, it could be big news for problogging, not just for hip hop but for music journalism in general. If they’re volunteers I’m not so impressed because hip hop bloggers are already well established. Nevertheless, I look forward to finding out more and getting back to you about it.

Update: Now that I’ve gotten a chance to take a closer look at SOHH Blogs, I realize that I’ve basically discovered a beta version of what I assume will eventually go live. However, I don’t feel that I acted prematurely because tech reporters are a big inspiration to me and this is exactly what they do when they discover something that is accessible online before it officially launches. That said, I don’t want to critique it until they go public. The big news is that SOHH has four bloggers and I’m happy to be the first to report that, at least from what I can tell. It’s a smart move on their part and, judging from first impressions, they’re not just using blogging technology to post news items, they actually have real people writing real blogs. Beyond that, I’m looking forward to the launch and I wish them the best.

Update: Please check out my followup on SOHH Blogs based on an interview with SOHH cofounder Felicia Palmer.