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Saturday, August 03, 2002

Welcome back, Shelley: I was thinking about writing an entry on "losing the will to blog" (maybe it's partly that I hate the term "blog" for Weblog, just as through many years' computer and software journalism I've always shunned the tacky jargon "apps" for "applications" (though I must admit I admire the back-formation "applet" for mini-programs like Windows' Calculator or Java gadgets)).  I was thinking about a long-overdue update of the Radio Navigator Links at right (I really am still listening to two-year-old albums, though I'll probably break down and buy "The Rising"; am hopelessly out of touch with pop music).  I was thinking about finally putting this unupdated journal out of its misery, or at least admitting I have issues with using Radio when UserLand Software czar Dave Winer (whom of course we all wish good health and a speedy recovery, especially those of us who are also middle-aged men with bad health habits) writes so often about how tech journalists are stupid corporate shills (and let's be honest, despite Webloggers' wet dreams this hobby/phenomenon won't ever be viewed as capital-J Journalism as long as everybody involved knows who Dave Winer and Rageboy are, any more than Linux will ever reach Mr. and Mrs. America as long as every user knows who Richard Stallman is).  I was busy.  I was trying to rouse the energy for job-hunting and life-change-contemplating.  I was poleaxed by the summer weather (crime-fighting is rewarding work, but I wish I had a superpower other than perspiration).  I was depressed, especially when my favorite, invaluable Weblogger announced her retirement from the field, especially since I share her despair that this new medium has proven just as likely to be seized and exploited by right-wing, war-mongering, hate-preaching, truth-ignoring, (OK, baldfaced-Ann-Coulter-lying) malefactors as other media like radio and TV.  But the other day I wistfully clicked a link and found, to my delight and the Internet's benefit, Burningbird has come back.  So I'm going to come back.  Watch this space.
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