Wednesday, November 8, 2000

…taciturn and ironic, with a beetling brow and a Tintin coif

CAN YOU HANDLE ONE MORE POLL THIS WEEK? Soopah-sexy David wants you to choose your favorite fruit. Please help me beat the banana. Er, I mean...

STALKING THE YETTIE: Salon has a review of A Field Guide to the Yettie book I mentioned on Sunday.

There's been a good deal of attention paid in certain circles to the feature "You've Got Blog" in the current issue of The New Yorker, which looks at the beginnings and growth of the use of weblogs by way of chronicling the romance of Meg and Jason. Although I'm not mentioned in the article, I'm pleased to say that I was there at the beginning and I knew those kids had a future. (The writer of the feature, Rebecca Mead, seems to understand weblogs and personal publishing fairly well. However, she describes Evan Williams as "taciturn and ironic, with a beetling brow and a Tintin coif" which is, I think we can all agree, just a unncessarily florid way of saying "Ev-o-licious".)

And speaking of online romance, I...well, perhaps I shouldn't say too much about that just now. Never mind.