I Guess If You’ve Got The Space To Waste….

My friend Anne Linehan, who’s quietly become one of the better bloggers in this fine city, calls attention to this article by Clifford Pugh.

I don’t find it particularly offensive (at least not by Comical standards), but I do wonder why they wasted the space.

About the only substance worth taking away from the piece is this quote:

“This is a watershed moment,” said David Sifrey, founder of Technorati, a service that tracks over 3.2 million Web loggers. “Just like e-mail revived the lost art of letter writing, blogging is reviving the lost art of civic dialogue. It’s a new kind of pamphleteer.”

The convention isn’t actually the “watershed moment,” but the notion of bloggers being a high-tech version of the nation’s early pamphleteers is not a bad comparsion, I don’t think.

Of course, it comes from someone who knows something about weblogs. Maybe Clifford Pugh should have tracked down a few more of those sorts of people.

I would have struck this:

“It’s not a different kind of journalism. It’s a different way of interpreting your experiences to other people,” said Jessamyn West, a Vermont librarian whose convention blogs appear on librarian.net/dnc.

Interpreting your experiences to other people.

Like I said, I would have struck that one.