Daniel Pearl, the deputy editor of Newsnight (BBC) has something to say to bloggers. Apparently people are surprised/creeped out by the fact that their blogs are being read, and responded to. Hello? Isn't the self-centered point of making a blog in the first place: so that people read it? So that people from entirely random and different lifestyles/locations/ideologies can get their two cents out there and-- o my!-- engage? This is, to me, the same line of reasoning that people who are fired when they defame their company on their blog and get all whacked out of shape try to use. It's the internet, guys. The point is open information. I suppose what's surprising (and rightly so, I must admit) is the fact that, with all the millions of blogs out there, you would happen to stumble across something that would be relevant to you, or that someone would randomly stumble across your little staked-out-space in the Wide Web.
In other doldrums, Tyler and I went and saw The Great Gatsby at the new Guthrie. After wandering around inside that crazy building, I still need a little more time to digest the actual show. It just seems very fitting that that should be the first production. I hope people realize that what our ol' homebody Fitzgerald was trying to pound across is still pertinent.
In other doldrums, Tyler and I went and saw The Great Gatsby at the new Guthrie. After wandering around inside that crazy building, I still need a little more time to digest the actual show. It just seems very fitting that that should be the first production. I hope people realize that what our ol' homebody Fitzgerald was trying to pound across is still pertinent.
