18th Oct 2003
“I’m Bored of Blogs”
- Quoth Nick Denton, the day after hosting a faux anniversary party for Gizmodo, one of the blogs he funds. Curious comment for a guy who’s building a whole blog empire. Of course, he may have just been trying to spare my feelings as to why he hasn’t been reading my blog recently…
UPDATE:
I was right, apparently it was just my blog. Nick writes:
hey, Rick, if you’re going to quote a private comment, at least put it in context. I meant I’m bored of talking about blogs as blogs. I’m interested in TMFTML, lowculture.com, Kaus, new sites we’re putting together. Just like I like reading Fortune, Economist, Us Weekly — but not every publication in the magazine format.
The context, as I recall, was that I was talking about something (related to robot photos, I believe), and I said, “I don’t know whether you saw that on my blog,” to which he promptly replied, “No, I’m bored of blogs.” Like I say, he was only sparing my feelings, I’m sure. To his credit, he had an ironic smirk on his face as he said it.
I’m just “taking the piss,” Nick, as your countrymen might say. Please still invite me to your parties!
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