31st Jul 2002
Blogging Is Totally Uncool
After hanging out with bloggers intensively for the last month or so, I can assure you that bloggers are not cool, as Jeff Jarvis observed recently (thanks to Elizabeth for the tip).
Elizabeth and Jeff are among the bloggers I’ve been hanging out with frequently of late, and I mean them and the rest of the gang no offense. It’s just…”cool”? I don’t think so. And bear in mind, I include myself in the category. I like these people, which is why I am hanging around with them of late, but they’re pretty much like the nerds I hung out with in high school, only older and frequently drunker.
This lack of cool was in evidence last Saturday at Adi & Miki’s birthday party at our house this weekend. The bloggers, about eight of them including several “well known” bloggers (I’ll spare the who’s who), were the first to arrive (how cool is that?) and spent virtually the entire night talking about Dave Winer whinings and other recent bloggossip. With only one gratefully acknowledged exception, none of them danced. And the Hungarians (who, simply by virtue of their European-ness and the fact that they are a generally beautiful breed, must be recognized as having some greater “cool” status) were observed at least once to be mocking the bloggers for our blog talk.
No, we bloggers aren’t cool, not since the 25th writing of the “blogs are neat” story in the mainstream press. But I’m happy to contribute the Bruner Blog to the blogosphere and hang out with my NYC blog posse on the weekends nonetheless, because that’s just that kind of middle-to-late early adopter kind of nerd I am.
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