Catching a brief moment or two of the CBS News’ report about the ipodsdirtysecret.com guys, one of them referred to the iPod battery’s imminent failure as “planned obsolescence.” I suppose the blogs (or just you) HAVE gotten too big. Time to go underground.

On a related note, I’m headed to New Orleans tomorrow morning to catch the big game (not in the Superdome, alas, but on a television somewhere) and (hopefully) the revelry to ensue. Wish me luck, have a safe new January, and I will see in you in a couple of weeks.

Ogged, I’m not at all sure how I’d define the form.  I’ll probably take the easy way out here and advert to Jill’s definition, which seems to me to convey a far greater range than “knitting to dating to homelessness,” an understanding that many of the most prominent blogs (Kottke, anyone?) aren’t political at all, and a greater sense of the community that blogging can build.

Of course, whether any of that can be conveyed in the paucity of USA Today’s column-inches is seriously open to question.

And Francois—circularity indeed.  But not insularity, I hope.  (And welcome back, by the way.  It’s been a while since I’ve seen you around these parts…)

But now I can’t shake the image of a blogging-style Studio 54 (a la “Last Days of Disco”).

I also get frustrated with these mainstream articles that characterize blogging in such narrow ways, but I really do believe that we’ll be able to define blogging however we want through the communities we create and the blogs we keep.

Really enjoyed meeting you at MLA, Kathleen, and looking forward to SCMS.

And while it seems to bloggers that absolutely everyone is blogging or reading blogs, a few days ago, I saw a couple of friends who spend hours online a day and didn’t know about blogs.

There are some interesting comments about the quotidien and political activity that perhaps gives the lie to the USA today article quoted in the entry entitled “The Last Days of Blogging” at Planned Obsolenscence. Aren’t apocalyptic scenarios just so circular? *wink*