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May 10, 2005
Jonathan Peterson points out the irony of Hillary Rosen chewing out Steve Jobs for the iPod's DRM. He also really really doesn't like the new Huffington blog in which Rosen's piece appears. I actually do like the blog. I wouldn't want all blogs to be like that, but since blogs will fill every available niche, I'm enough of a celebrity whore to want to read blogs by Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Cusack, Quincy Jones, etc. I would never point to it as an example of what blogging is about, but hearing celebs talk in their own voices is, arguably, a useful reminder that we all put on our blogs one leg at a time, so to speak. [Technorati tags: huffington drm] Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 10, 2005 04:05 PM
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But they aren't talking in their own voice. They're talking in a voice simulated to sound like their own voice. You know the difference - as the saying goes, if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.
Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | May 10, 2005 09:45 PM
David, Have you heard or seen anything to the effect that the Huffington blog is a joke or hoax? A friend asked me what I had heard because someone on a mailing list claimed the whole thing was a joke.
I can't find any direct suggstion that it's a hoax. But there are plenty of people who don't like it. The LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke really doesn't like the whole concept (http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/25/web-finke.php), for example.
Posted by: Jack Vinson | May 10, 2005 10:48 PM
And CJR Daily calls Finke's piece a cheap shot, 1700 words posted the same day Huffington went up.
Well, Vinson, the joke may be on the folk bloggers; I'm skeptical that there's a secret sauce of blogging that people skilled at communicating won't be able to figure out.
Posted by: Jon Garfunkel | May 11, 2005 01:24 AM