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Monday, April 25, 2005
Shoot you there 
Overbite
| | Saving grace: all 32 of my teeth are still alive at 57, and I haven't had a cavity in many years. In my teeth, anyway. |
Caste-ing a story
| | LOS ANGELES, April 23 - Get ready for the next level in the blogosphere. |
| | Arianna Huffington, the columnist and onetime candidate for governor of California, is about to move blogging from the realm of the anonymous individual to the realm of the celebrity collective. |
| | We're anonymous here, she (and therefore the Times) says. We operate at "levels," none of which (so far) are the "next level" (up, right? where else?) occupied by celebrities. |
| | Note that crapping on what 8 million bloggers have already done isn't Arianna's game: |
| | Having prominent people join the blogosphere, Ms. Huffington said in an interview, "is an affirmation of its success and will only enrich and strengthen its impact on the national conversation." Among those signed up to contribute are Walter Cronkite, David Mamet, Nora Ephron, Warren Beatty, James Fallows, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Diane Keaton, Norman Mailer and Mortimer B. Zuckerman. |
| | Here's a challenge: look at how often, and in what ways, professional journalists work (mostly unconsciously, but very effectively) to maintain caste systems — hierarchies — in various fields, including their own. |
| | Next: look for the same in what each of us writes as well. |
| | Thanks to Chip for the pointer. |
PGGD
| | I see by Dave and my aggregator that Steve Gillmor suffers from Post Gillmor Gang Disorder. Alas, that link now goes to an empty page. Not sure what's up with that. But I'm with Steve and Dave: I miss the Gang too. |
| | By the way, Steve said (in the missing post) that he wanted to ream me for making no sense in this post here. I agree. Not sure what I meant there. |
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