bloggedy blog: the personal weblog of a music lover and aging punk wannabe

:: Monday, September 01, 2003 ::

Almost famous (registration required)
This blog was mentioned in Saturday's Dallas Morning News piece about spiritual blogging (registration required). The author, Susan Hogan/Albach, interviewed me for the piece a couple of weeks ago. I actually thought I was going to be quoted in the story. I even told my good friend in Fort Worth to be on the lookout for the story and to pick up a couple of copies of the paper for me. Boy, do I feel like a conceited ass. I almost blogged about the fact that I was interviewed for this story before publication, and boy, would I have felt like a true doofus if I had done so. Ms. Hogan/Albach used one of the oldest tools in the journalistic craft: flattery. She told me how all of the other bloggers she'd interviewed fawned about my wonderful blog, and in my vanity I fell for it and gave what I thought was a decent interview. But nothing came of it. *sulk* At least bloggedy blog was mentioned first in the list of Christian weblogs, so that is some consolation. But it's nothing like having my name in the story, dammit!

Oh well. One of my favorite bloggers, Tim Bednar (erroneously called "Ted" in first reference), is quoted extensively. So that's good for Tim. Tim's a good guy and deserves the recognition. (By the way, Tim riffs nicely on my little "emerging church/blogosphere" rant and links to his own earlier and more articulate post about it as well as to Shirkey's Power Law, which describes the emergence of new cliques and social strata among emerging electronic communities -- something that has happened among BBSs and various forums and is occurring among bloggers -- and wow this is a very long parenthetical thought that I should put an end to right now.) I thought the author might have interviewed a couple of Dallas-area bloggers, particularly Dan Hughes and David Hopkins. Maybe they're not, um, I don't know, spiritual enough? Or perhaps too spiritual, in that they blog more about topics outside our little pigeonhole of spirituality/religiosity.

Anyway, about the same time, I was interviewed by another newspaper journalist for another story -- not about blogging -- but I'm not going to tell anyone about that until it's off the press. Stay tuned.

P.S. From the small-world department: Ms. Hogan/Albach, it turns out, is from a small town about 24 miles north of my hometown and she graduated high school with a women I once dated from that same small town. I'm not sure whether that fact helped or hurt my cause. But it made for interesting small talk before the interview.

:: Andrew 11:52 + ::
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