The Deranging Influence of Blogs
I read danah’s rant about the NYT going on the offensive against bloggers, but I hadn’t realized just how far it went until I saw more sniping in a review of Nicholson Baker’s new book:
Jay is a deeply unhappy man. His wife has left him, his girlfriend has left him, he has lost his job as a high-school teacher, he works as a day laborer and has declared personal bankruptcy, he spends his days reading blogs. (About the deranging influence of blogs Baker makes a sterling point.)
August 10th, 2004 at 12:32 pm
I think we can all agree that the whatever the new york times writes is true. thus i now believe that blogging is evil and dangerous to “truth”. more importantly anything nickelson baker has written since fermata should be interpretted as flagships of insanity. so now i don’t know what to believe. luckily i am pretty sure someone will tell me eventually.
i think the new york times is ignoring a greater evil that lurks in the wings of a scary, scary house or something: gamebooks.
http://www.gamebooks.org/
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