Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Visitors from the East   Today I conducted weblog/weblogger personality correlation experiment. Turns out that Eric Muller is in fact much what one might expect from reading his weblog. (That’s a good thing.) We talked about dogs while mine slept on my office couch.   Then this afternoon I did an interview with UNC-TV about the Greensboro Truth & Reconciliation project. They called at the last minute. Of course I was wearing a t-shirt and shorts and I worried that I should look more respectable if I’m going to be identified onscreen as a columnist for the News & Record. I found an old shirt in my office and they promised not to show the shorts. It’s supposed to be on Monday night.  4:57:46 PM    comment []

Luna and I are having lunch today with Eric Muller – he’s driving up from Chapel Hill. If it doesn’t rain we can eat outside at Undercurrent. But maybe he wants authentic Greensboro cuisine? 11:41:32 AM    comment []

The Times says it’s giving more credit to freelancers – but Mark Tosczak already told you that on Sunday, and yesterday I told you he told you. Good to have it from the horse's mouth, though. 11:33:17 AM    comment []

John Dvorak now says weblogs are the next big thing. Great, welcome to the party. But he also says a lot of stuff that shows he doesn’t quite get it yet.   First of all he tells this as a business and technology story, when it’s much more a story about what people do with technology once it gets cheap and easy enough to use.   “Web logs are all about the Web.” False. I don’t really know what that means, actually, but it seems wrong to me. Weblogs live on the Web but they are about whatever the weblogger is about.   San Francisco the hub of the weblogging world? Well, no. Lot’s of good influential bloggers out there, but at least one ur-blogger was definitely a (Silicon) Valley Boy, and Dvorak's blogging poster boy works for the San Jose paper. The blogosphere is hubless. Important stuff is happening in Baghdad, Cambridge, Knoxville, DC, North Wilkesboro…That’s what all the commotion is about.     The Macintosh as central to weblog culture. What’s a Macintosh? Just kidding, I’ve seen the ads. Probably there was an overlap between creative and/or tech forward people who favor Macs and those who experimented early with weblogs, but my guess is that the distribution of weblogs according to operating system will probably follow if not duplicate overall OS market share. 11:28:03 AM    comment []