The Huffington Post, Day 2 (Or, Blogging about Blogging)
Arianna's blog has now been live for two days, and I have to say, it's downright weird. Totally male-dominated, for one thing. And possibly not coincidentally, there's an awful lot of self-importance flying around. Joe Scarborough on "Sudan Suffering in Silence"? Or congressman John Conyers on "Creating Justifications to Go to War"? No thanks. Rob Reiner on "Where Have You Gone, Woodward and Berstein"? I'd sooner repeatedly jab myself in the throat with a ballpoint pen.
Here's something I wonder: How many of these blog entries are actually ghost-written? I have a hunch that Arianna might have inadvertently pioneered a web breakthrough: the ghost-blogger. Because I seriously doubt that Senator Jon Corzine, et al, are logging on to the web and writing a little entry for the Huffington Post....
Well, let's hope that these guys lighten up a little and stop taking themselves so seriously. Because right now, they are bloviating like mad, with no sign of slowing down.
