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When I dropped out of J-school, the extent of their “new media” training was a course that showed students how to use boolean operators like “and ” and “or” to enhance searches. But at least we didn’t have to take a class on Twitter.
(Sorry for the light posting; most bloggers post something before they go out of town.)
Technohipster Jakob Lodwick quits the internet over harsh comments from his various detractors. “I may be a millionaire but…this sort of thing still hurts,” he writes. “You may conceptualize the Unites States as a great nation. But it’s also a big tribe, with its own irrational taboos. One of them is: don’t talk proudly about your achievements.”
This may be a good time to mention (proudly!) that, in the latest D&D campaign I’m playing, I’ve named my half-elf warlock “Lodwick.” Okay, there’s no really good time to mention that. But he describes Gawker’s Alex Pareene as an elf, so it’s totally pertinent!
No one refers to individual articles in Harper’s as “magazines”. So why are blog posts increasingly (I have no evidence that it’s increasing, but that makes it a “trend”) considered “blogs”?
Don’t have enough time to fisk an article? Why not tsk it instead? You know, just link to it:
Michael Pollan’s latest food scolding.
and then underneath write:
Tsk-tsk.
(Can’t remember whether Wax Banks or I first proposed this.)
I sound much less inane in this Business Review profile than I did in the News article. But, “softens”? Does this mean that the last couple years of AAIO were like the late-period album a punk band releases when they’ve lost their edge, and the critics fall all over themselves insisting, “No, ‘mature’ really doesn’t mean boring”?