Z-lister and proud!!!!

Well, for the rest of your readers, here's the context near as I can tell. Here's the article from The Age as well as the supposed smear: "The personal attack, the seemingly projected insecurity, the insult posing as argument, a tone of barely suppressed shouting - these are the hallmarks of too much commentary online..."

As anyone familiar with my writings no, I sympathize with this perspective. The blogs favor quantity over quality. I'm not sure how much empathy to extend to Laura. She baked a nice challah, she takes nice pictures, etc, but the whole ado about the smears both ways is a bit of hyperbole on both sides.

And I guess that's what AOL is buying, a whole lotta quantity. What is the headline for the Unofficial Microsoft Weblog today? Help A-Lister buy a new HDTV.

Jon, that's interestingly condescending. I wonder sometimes whether people who interest themselves in the marketeer side of new media fully appreciate that a sizeable proportion of the little, little bloggers like flying under the mass, anonymous, depersonalising radar. I certainly have no wish to 'develop' my blogging activities, and as it happens, the two or three times my blog has recieved more traffic than I really like, I've 'camouflaged' it in baking and kitten pictures etc until the circus goes away, bored, and only the real, patient, subtle readers remain.