Time magazine columnist gets weblog.

February 4, 2002 11:24 AM

oh, goodness, now even my mother will know about weblogging. Time magazine columnist gets weblog.
posted by epersonae to general weblog-related at 11:24 AM (14 comments total)

of course, I'm just feeling a bit of whoo-hoo pride because the columnist is using my template design. :)

oh, and via Blogger.
posted by epersonae at 11:25 AM on February 4, 2002

The fine people at national review jumping on the bandwagon as well. I just love that Jonah Goldberg...
posted by revbrian at 11:57 AM on February 4, 2002

national review? ::grimaces::

I wonder if this will help the push for Blogger Pro.

I wonder if my kid sis will read this in mom's copy of Time and start a weblog.
posted by epersonae at 12:02 PM on February 4, 2002

And yet another failure to distinguish between online journals and weblogs.
posted by gsh at 1:22 PM on February 4, 2002

so how do you distinguish between the two?

yes, I think he (article author) focuses a skosh too much on the soap-opera potential of the form, but I really do wonder where that boundary is. is it a certain ratio of linked goodness to personal editorializing to recording of daily life?
posted by epersonae at 1:53 PM on February 4, 2002

PC magazine (feb 26) has a column about weblogs....we just got it in the mail, don't know if it hit newsstands yet......mostly talking about the diary form tho.

I am the last living sentient being on the planet without one-at least that is what it is starting to feel like. I don't even have a web page. I have the technology,(aka genius teenage son), just never got around to it.
posted by bunnyfire at 2:21 PM on February 4, 2002

Eureka!

I've found the last living sentient being on the planet without a web page!

Now, hand me the tranquilizer gun...carefully, carefully! That's got her!

*no bunnies were harmed, or fired, in the composition of this comment*

I'm Marlon Perkins for Mutual of Omaha.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:49 PM on February 4, 2002

"congratulations! bunnyfire.com is available"

courtesy of the fine folks @ network solutions.

y'know, once you get outside of the cozy world of the 'bloggers, there are lots and lots of people who don't have web sites.

not that I claim to understand 'em myself....

:)
posted by epersonae at 2:59 PM on February 4, 2002

posted by bunnyfire at 3:09 PM on February 4, 2002

Iteesh a vishhious rohdent! Wit' big, shaarp pointy teeeth!
posted by dong_resin at 5:38 PM on February 4, 2002

quietly backing away....

actually, almost none of my "meatspace" friends have web sites, nor weblogs, and that sucks. I hate the phone, I'm a terrible correspondent (both snail- and e-mail), but I keep a pretty good weblog/journal. (a legacy of damn near 20 years of keeping various diaries.) and I love reading other people's weblogs, so why not my own friends?

but no.

(which is why I'm kinda hoping that the sis will read that article.)
posted by epersonae at 5:52 PM on February 4, 2002

poor Marlin Perkins......he could have used some salt (burp)...........
posted by bunnyfire at 6:19 PM on February 4, 2002

Ken Layne's response (scroll down a touch):

That fruit pie from Time Magazine thinks a personal Web site should revolve around "whatever ramblings come to mind ... "

Sure thing, Pablo! ...

And check back soon for new updates! The prom's coming up, I'm wondering about getting my ass pierced, and I've conjured some sort of blood-sucking devil monster out of the pile of chicken heads in the living room! Love ya lots, jackass! Stay cool!"
posted by mattpfeff at 1:21 PM on February 5, 2002

Actually, Bunnyfire, you do have a weblog.

It's called MetaFilter : )
posted by Ptrin at 6:31 PM on February 5, 2002