December 08, 2004

this weekend

I'm going to Athens, Georgia this weekend to visit some friends. A lot of them are bloggers, and I'm thinking about turning this party summit conference into a mercenary endeavour. I may try to free-lance a feature story for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about Jawja Bloggers, if the people I see there don't mind me mentioning them in the article. (And I doubt that they will.)

Most newspaper stories I read about bloggers are written by someone who never heard of a blog before he or she received the assignment to go write about blogs. That ignorance shows in their writing. To be perfectly blunt, I think I can do a better job. I already know a lot of these people and I've been reading them for years. Besides, I am a blogger myself. I have the creds to write about it.

I believe that blogs will become more influential and more well-known over the next few years. We in the pajama brigade are just emerging from infancy, but we're growing fast. Hell, I've spawned so many offspring that I can't keep track of them all anymore. And MY OFFSPRING have produced offspring, too. I am the patriarch to a whole bunch of bastard children and grandchildren.

I love that family. Them's good people.

Blogs may never replace MSM, but they can give people an alternative to the crap we've had to put up with for years because nothing else existed. Besides, a lot of them are just plain, fun reading.

I think I can make a good story out of that subject.