Thursday, May 18, 2000

Radio redux

The experience of doing a long-distance radio interview is a lot like keeping up a personal website such as The BradLands. For me, it meant sitting alone in a tiny studio in St. Louis while a disembodied host hundreds of miles away questioned me, and I put my answers out into the aether with no foreknowledge of who was listening or how they'd respond. Same way with my website. Here I am, sitting alone in my office, putting up words and links and whatnot and with little knowledge about who's out there on the other side.

Doing the show was cool, though, and what a pleasure to share the hour with Evan and Rebecca. For all of the general difficulty associated with trying to communicate the essence of weblogging without benefit of visual aids, I think we had a pretty good discussion. Apparently other folks did also, since the callers were basically fun and a lot of BradLands readers old and new have written me e-mail to feedback on the show.

I spent a few hours agonizing over the question I knew would be coming: what are some of your favorite websites. I can't even keep the list on this site up to date, much less come up with a concise, radio-friendly soundbite. If I didn't name your site, please don't think I hold you in any less esteem. Bloggers as a breed rock my world. » (Favorite moments: I had to giggle everytime Chris Lydon said "blog connection" and when he called my colleague Rebecca Blog. Also, I got to pounce Zannah on national radio. )