Quote whore
: I guess I’ve been so busy because I’ve been giving so many interviews. Herewith a summary of recent press:
: Quoted in today’s NY Times Circuits story about obsessive bloggers. When the (intern) reporter called, I worked hard to get them off the idea that bloggers are all a bunch of looney cat owners typing in bathrobes. My bits:
Jeff Jarvis, president of Advance.net, a company that builds Web sites for newspapers and magazines, and a blogging enthusiast, defended what he called one’s “obligation to the blog.”
“The addictive part is not so much extreme narcissism,” Mr. Jarvis said. “It’s that you’re involved in a conversation. You have a connection to people through the blog.” …
Mr. Jarvis characterizes the blogging way of life as a routine rather than an obsession. “It’s a habit,” he said. “What you’re really doing is telling people about something that they might find interesting. When that becomes part of your life, when you start thinking in blog, it becomes part of you.”
: Daniel Radosh did a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on the agent to the blog stars, the wonderful Kate Lee, the one person in that stodgy old biz who gets this new world and knows it’s a goldmine of talent and ideas.
Suddenly, books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon. You will probably read about it in the Sunday Times. And when that happens the person to thank
