Historic news! David Hudson, the master of film blogging behind GreenCine Daily, is leaving that site to start a new blog for IFC. That blog, called The Daily, will launch January 1. Meanwhile, GreenCine Daily will be taken over by Aaron Hillis, freelance writer and co-founder of Benten Films.
Why is this a big deal? In the brief history of the film blogosphere, nobody has ever even tried to aggregate film news and commentary as thoroughly and elegantly as David Hudson. And maybe it’s holiday season fuzzy headed-ness on my part, but the idea that there will soon be two places for me to go for curated bloggy aggregation kind of blows my mind.
In his post on the trasition, Hudson talks about the evolution of blogging (his, ours) and stresses the notion that “community-building” is integral to all of it. One thing our sector of the blogosphere has been notably lacking over the years, as that community has built up, is competition. Which is not to say that I expect Hillis and Hudson to start going after each other like the link blog equivalents of Clint Eastwood and Spike Lee, but it’ll be interesting, for sure, to see how this community evolves with more than one set of eyes and furiously typing fingers combing through the clutter for clarity.
And, of course, there’s the added pressure that with everything I publish, I now have *two* men to try to impress.
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