Emily Nussbaum, the brains behind New York‘s The Approval Matrix, which I read religiously, blogs about television here.
Other magazine journalists I wish would blog: David Owen, Lauren Collins, Mark Singer, Adam Sternbergh.
In his blog, Bryan Caplan makes some amusing and reasonable points about Barbara Ehrenreich’s criticism of some happiness research. My eyes widened as I read. This is so much betterthan what’s usually in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. It reminded me of Spy, except the level of thought is deeper. It’s as if blogs allow and encourage intelligent people to say what they really think about stuff. Whereas in any mainstream venue there are tremendous constraints.
This blog entry made me happy. Maybe I will start a blog where I write in Chinese.
From David Osmond, a failed contestant on American Idol: “I wish I had the opportunity to share what’s inside of me.”
I think that’s exactly the driving force behind blogging.
I used to teach introductory psychology. Large lecture class. I found I could often put whatever I was thinking about in the morning into my lecture. Blogging is easier.
More Jonathan Schwarz puts it like this: We have “desperation to express what our existence is like. Sometimes this comes out literally as singing, sometimes metaphorically.”
On Christmas Eve I wrote there was a lot to be learned from the web comments on newspaper articles and the like that anyone can post. My point was how wonderful this was. Now the New York Times has added a feature that allows the most popular comments to rise to the top (you “show” Readers’ Recommendations) as I hoped. For example. Way to go!
You can also find comments that the “editors” (the sub-sub editors?) recommend (show Editors’ Selections). They tend to be long and querulous. I don’t think I’ll be using that feature much but it is good to have it for when I want long and querulous.
Still no comments allowed on The New Yorker website.
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