Open Source Media, the long-anticipated website rising from the ashes of Pajamas Media, is up and running. It's list of contributors range from conservative to Jesus-can-you-keep-your-voice-down-there-are-children-present Wingnuts, but I also see that several of my co-conspirators in the Grand Cause to overthrow the guv'ment, including David Corn and Marc Cooper are among them as well. Perhaps even more significant in terms of blogcred, Max Sawicki (ie., MaxSpeak) is also among the heathens; Sawicki is probably to the left of Cooper and Corn, and an excellent debater.

I noted a few weeks ago a brief debate between Mr. Corn and James Wolcott about whether left-of-center types should be associating in blog ventures with miscreants like Charles Johnson and Roger Simon. Corn correctly noted that Mr. Wolcott's hands were not clean in such matters; it ill-behooves anyone to play the guilt-by-association card when you make your money writing for a magazine whose two recent covergals include America's Richest Porn Star and England's Most Gorgeous Crankskank. Nevertheless, Vanity Fair offers something for every discriminating taste, and if you don't like hard-hitting celebrity journalism (who knew you could be such a devoted mother and be snorting lines of primo at four in the morning) or Mr. Samgrass' bi-monthly apologias for Ahmad Chalabi and Paul Wolfowitz, there's always something else to read, including Mr. Wolcott's fine media column. And I'm willing to give OSM a shot as well.

UPDATE: Seems like the new venture is not entirely "open source", however.