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16 July 2003: "Vicarious thrills"

Jackie D got quoted in the Guardian! Not only that, but with one of the sharpest observations on the nature of blogging that I've seen all year (the Grauniad does print some stuff worth reading on occasion). Mind you, it helps that they've got her insights following some total pratt called Tom Donald who's copping a classic "so jaded" attitude, and who emphatically states his page is not a blog, because [sloanie voice] "[b]logging is a way for unoriginal people to throw their ego at the world," okay, yah?[/sloanie voice]

Oddly, the guy's page is primarily a collection of links to various news and opinion items, periodically updated, and there's a sidebar with a ubiquitous "March-Herold-school-of-dodgy-arithmetic" Iraq Body Count counter. Just about the only thing which makes this Not A Blog is that the amount of personal commentary is limited to what most bloggers use for entry headers. Oh, and as Carolyn (my wife) remarks: "It's too ugly to be a blog."

[...] and the world yawns.

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