Double-Blogging
I feel like I'm cheating on myself. Today marks the debut of the
Huffington Post, where I'll be blogging as well. You can find my first entry—about what John Bolton, Larry Summers, George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI have in common—
here. Sigh—I didn't make the cut and get featured on the front page with Mike Nichols and David Mamet.
I like Arianna Huffington and I'm flattered to be asked to contribute, but I do wonder if this thing is going to work. A lot of the folks she's asked to blog are, um, kinda old. Will they really do it? And will the people who follow Mike Nichols really log on to read them? I'm just not sure that people past a certain point in their reading habits are going to get the whole blogosphere thing.
(And what a terrible word blogosphere is—can't we do better? "Blogorama?" So many Internet words catch on because they sound mellifluous—"Google," for example, and now "Grokker." Blogosphere sounds like a violent physical reaction to eating something past its prime.)
Anyway, as a certain university president likes to say, I hope I'm proved wrong and the Huffington Post is a huge hit. I've known Arianna a little bit for about a decade now, and I like her very much. She's never afraid to try something new, or make herself vulnerable (often the same thing). And she's living an interesting life....
