Alan Taylor, the BigPicture blog, and InFocus

About 2 months ago, Alan Taylor, the creator of The Big Picture blog at the Boston Globe website, moved over to The Atlantic, where he now publishes his photo-journalism blog under the title InFocus.

Meanwhile, the Boston Globe transitioned The Big Picture to a new set of writers, who seem to rotate responsibility.

Well, this is all well and good, but am I the only one who finds it really odd that these two blogs seem to both cover the same topics, with the same pictures, at about the same times? I guess that's just natural, given that they are both photo blogs and they are both very topically oriented, but it still seems strange...

• Earth Hour in In Focus; Earth Hour in The Big Picture


• Dog Sledding in In Focus; Dog Sledding in The Big Picture


• The Holi Festival in In Focus; the Holi Festival in The Big Picture

and so on.

Probably it's just me, but it seems like something unusual is going on here...