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Busted

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Busted

: Henry Copeland busts the Boston Globe’s Hiawatha Bray…

…who wrote in a March 2002 article for the Boston Globe that “blogging is an ephemeral fad, destined to burn itself out in a year or two.” The original article has disappeared into the Globe’s archives, but its trace is here. Isn’t it time to revisit that prediction Hiawatha?

A reporter with balls would eat crow publicly.

: UPDATE: Henry adds in the comments:

Turns out I need to eat a little crow too. As Corvidophile Ken Layne noted in my blog’s comments, Bray actually wrote on June 1 in the Globe: “Over the past two years, blogging has gone from an eccentric hobby to a powerful new form of journalism.” Quite an about face. Sadly, no recognition by Bray or the Globe of the prior failed prediction, but at least Bray has now climbed aboard the bandwagon. Bad news for blogging?

19 responses to “Busted”

  1. W. Au Avatar
    W. Au

    My guess is she’s changed her mind, because, well,
    she has her own blog:
    http://www.monitortan.com/

  2. triticale Avatar
    triticale

    Yup. I wasn’t the least bit surprised that when I googled – Hiawatha Bray – the first link was clearly, from the google excerpt, a blog.

  3. Running Bull Avatar
    Running Bull

    You’re pretty funny Jarvis. You won’t apologize for supporting a brutal war whose stated reasons were a bunch of lies, but you want a journalist to publicly apologize for a non-issue like blogging???
    What a hypocrite. Let’s see how long this post lasts before its deleted

  4. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    What an appropriate name, Bull.

  5. Jeff B. Avatar
    Jeff B.

    Don’t you love how they insult you then dare you to remove their comment? It’s like the early Christians who, once the Empire was no longer interested in active persecution, went out of their way to attack and insult pagan rituals or functionaries as a means of instigating their own martyrdom.

  6. Robert McClelland Avatar
    Robert McClelland

    I think blogging has reached the peak in it’s bubble and I predict as soon as the US election is over a good many political bloggers are going to disappear. I’m getting the sense that many of them already want to pack it in but are hanging on because of the election. I don’t know if this applies to the rest of the blogosphere though.

  7. Andrea Harris Avatar
    Andrea Harris

    Running Bull ran into a pile of his own bullsh*t.

  8. Andrea Harris Avatar
    Andrea Harris

    Is that your way of saying you’ll be gone soon, Robert? (X fingers X)

  9. Robert McClelland Avatar
    Robert McClelland

    Say, Jeff. Do we really have to suffer the likes of Andrea Harris who only shows up here to launch ad hominem attacks on people? Isn’t it time to ban her in hopes that the reasonable people you once had commenting here will return?

  10. J Avatar
    J

    “Isn’t it time to ban her in hopes that the reasonable people you once had commenting here will return?”
    This from someone whose main blog entry at the moment is a picture of the POTUS’s umbrella being flipped inside out with the reasonably/incredibly immature heading “NUFF SAID”!!
    And Raging Bull, are you people still waffling on with “Bush lied” crap – despite the fact that virtually every intelligence organization around the world said the same thing. As for the “brutal war” thing, I’d be interested to know how you would describe the “peace” as it was for the 20 or so million Iraqi’s who did not come under Husseins favour? From the information we now have, it would appear that for most Iraqi’s the “peace” was a thousand times more “brutal” than the war that has freed them.
    Good grief, next you’ll be chanting “no blood for oil”
    Its really hard not to get an image in your head of people like “raging Bull” standing there when ever anyone mentions some good news from Iraq with their petticoat pulled over their heads going “la,la,la,la I can’t heeaar yooooo….”

  11. J Avatar
    J

    Of course that would be “Running Bull”

  12. Robert McClelland Avatar
    Robert McClelland

    This from someone whose main blog entry at the moment is a picture of the POTUS’s umbrella being flipped inside out with the reasonably/incredibly immature heading “NUFF SAID”!!
    And what does that have to do with posting comments on Jeff’s blog? Nothing. But back to Andrea, she offers nothing but attacks on posters here. It’s not even as though she’s insulting people while making a point. Just examine the evidence.
    Running Bull ran into a pile of his own bullsh*t.
    What does this add to the discussion? Nothing. All it does, and has done, is drive good people away.

  13. J Avatar
    J

    “And what does that have to do with posting comments on Jeff’s blog?”
    I has to do with the type of person posting comments on Jeffs blog. To my mind someone who considers an umbrella turned inside out by a gust of wind to be worthy of a blog entry with the heading “nuff said” is hardly in a position to be lecturing others about being “reasonable”.
    And the fact that you gave Running Bull’s trollish post a free pass seems to indicate that unreasonable posters aren’t really what you have the problem with.

  14. Trump Avatar
    Trump

    speaking of eating Crow publically, neither Jeff or Howard Stern had anything to say about Kerry supporting the FCC crackdown….hmmmmmm why could that be?

  15. henry Avatar
    henry

    Turns out I need to eat a little crow too. As Corvidophile Ken Layne noted in my blog’s comments, Bray actually wrote on June 1 in the Globe: “Over the past two years, blogging has gone from an eccentric hobby to a powerful new form of journalism.” Quite an about face. Sadly, no recognition by Bray or the Globe of the prior failed prediction, but at least Bray has now climbed aboard the bandwagon. Bad news for blogging?

  16. onecent Avatar
    onecent

    Robert, how many sites have you been banned from to date? Fess up?

  17. Robert McClelland Avatar
    Robert McClelland

    Robert, how many sites have you been banned from to date?
    I’m not certain of the exact number but I’d estimate somewhere around a dozen. But I’m currently only banned on one.

  18. Robert McClelland Avatar
    Robert McClelland

    And the fact that you gave Running Bull’s trollish post a free pass seems to indicate that unreasonable posters aren’t really what you have the problem with.
    The difference between Running Bull and Andrea is that RB was making a point to go with his offensiveness (the point being that Jeff is hypocritical for demanding the apology for something so minor while not demanding one for major offenses). Andrea on the other hand simply insults people. It’s her type of behaviour that Jeff is allowing to flourish and this is driving the reasonable people away.

  19. Andrea Harris Avatar
    Andrea Harris

    Ooh, I hurt Bwave Sir Wobert’s feewings. Go me!