Well hello there.
I'm not sure how you found this, but
welcome. You are reading this because I pitched a blog to my visionary
editors and they, being visionaries, agreed to let me have one.
Hopefully you will keep reading because it will grow into something
thought-provoking, funny, curious and worthy of your pity. Or, think of
it this way: I have two small daughters to support and if you don't
come back here often--and click on all the ads--they will be sent to
toil in the Peruvian mercury mines to support me. So please, think of
my children.
Meanwhile, I'll be curating things on a daily basis around here,
trying to put goodies in front of your eyeballs. What exactly that will
entail remains to be seen. But here's a little guide to get started
with: I am a general editor here at Newsweek,
covering technology, popular culture and, my favorite, unpopular
culture. Mostly, I freaking love the internets. Every single last one
of them. So I spend a lot of time looking at said internets--and as
such, I see mountains of mind-blowingly life-changing awesomeness every
day. And, you know, funny videos of piano-playing cats. Either
way, I come across so much good stuff that may not merit a full-blown
Newsweek-style story, but is certainly worthy of a mention. I'm talking
about stuff that can only happen online (or, to give myself some wiggle
room, anywhere else on earth). Stuff that inhabits that middle ground
between high-brow arts, low-brow trash and mono-brow geekery. Stuff I
would love to share with you, gentle reader, like the selfless lover
that I am.
Here, for example, are a few things I'd link to RIGHT NOW if I were
blogging. Which, uh, I guess I am. So. Let's get started: the webby (in
more ways than one) Italian Spiderman,
which wrapped its 10th episode this week and is quite possibly the
funniest spoof of bad '60s Italian James Bond knockoffs you'll ever
see. Or I'd hip you to new rumors of a forthcoming Mac book pro and then drool all over my keyboard so that the spacebarstopsworking. Or maybe you'd find this as interesting as I did: Wil Wheaton crumbling some Webcake at Comic Con this week. Or check out this current debate over the Los Angeles Times' policy regarding blogging about rumors
surrounding a certain (probably erstwhile) potential Obama running
mate--the comments raise a lot of interesting issues surrounding the
role of blogs at a, ahem, mainstream media outlet.
Of course, for each of those, I'd take the time to cook up some
deliciously brilliant thoughts and conclusions. Maybe take the
initiative to do a little reporting. I'd dazzle you with my unique
voice, my counterintuitive take. This will be a two-way
street--I encourage your feedback, tips, debate, lunch money. But not
right now, OK? It's Saturday. It's nice outside. And you and I will get
to know each other as this experiment continues. It is a work in
progress. It is an evolution, an exploration of the tubes.
And also there will be haiku.
