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Friday, October 3, 2003 |
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Company's Coming Today I was interviewed for an article on Toledo-area bloggers. I've never been interviewed before, so it was kind of neat. It pretty much brought all work in my office to a halt as everyone tried to eavesdrop--I think they thought it was a job interview. The journalist was good, and I was surprised that she seemed to understand blogs fairly well. The questions were mostly personal--why do I blog, how did I start, ect.--and not about bigger and more interesting questions about the nature and role of blogs in the larger internet community.The blogging community in Toledo is fairly small, and apparently I was the only political blogger that she found and interviewed. I had some cogent things to say about the nature of political blogging, so I hope that some of that shows up in the article (look for my "big, noisy room" line).
I'll have to spiff up the place, dust off some cobwebs and clean up the language. I don't know when the article will appear, but hopefully I won't look like too big of a geek (my wife's main concern) and hopefully a new visitor or two will be showing up in the next few weeks. |
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In the comments below, Screwdriver posted a link to this column in the Economist. Even though I never hesitate to criticize the Bush administration's economic policies, even I was surprised to read the critical tone in this piece:
Underlying some of this column[base ']s cheer these few weeks past has been an assumption that President George Bush and his administration were not as stupid, short-sighted, parochial and economically illiterate as they sometimes appear. Buttonwood now realises that this was a mistake and retracts this view as hopelessly optimistic and naive. Over the past couple of weeks, the risks to the world economy and financial markets everywhere have risen as the full force of their economic myopia has visited itself on the world stage.
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