Comments on "The consumption of blogs is often avid and occasionally obsessive."

"The spell check on Microsoft Word has yet to awaken to the concept of the blog"

Er, it has on mine. Are we talking about some crappy outdated mac version of Office or something?

Given the nature of the internet, it's not surprising that the accuracy of the WSJ's claim of a ten-year anniversary is being hotly debated. Most people think it's more like eleven. [crunchnotes]

But, yeah. Maud Newton's 'blog is great.

Actually, this was in the Saturday edition of the Wall Street Journal (at least the print edition).

And I had a blog way before "the beginning of blogs" - that's why I don't have one anymore.

Regarding book launch parties: good wine and good books should go together, it's sad when poor publishing houses can't afford anything but YellowTail. Oh god. The oak

That's crappy. Slog is perhaps one of the only blogs worth reading on the net. It's consistently one of the most entertaining & informative, anyway.

'Gainesville' with an 'e'.

right. fixed. hilarious, given context.

I'm still reeling to find out that a foundation is throwing money at Universities to teach Ayn Rand.

What next? The philosophy of Jackie Collins? The ideology of Jaqueline Sussan? At least THOSE romance novelists wrote interesting books.