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Add one part satire to two parts sincerity. Sprinkle on a couple of rants. Stir liberally.
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Daily Blah FAQ
Who are you?
I'm the newly-appointed Future editor at Business 2.0 and the former San Francisco correspondent for Time Magazine.
Wow, so does this mean everything you write reflects Time Inc's opinion? Or do you perhaps have some sort of standard disclaimer to the effect that it doesn't?
Naturally, the opinions contained in this blog are not those of my employers. In fact, some opinions may be the polar opposite of my employers. Some may be the same, for all I know. Hey, it's not like I ask my employers their opinions about everything in the news, okay? Let's just say that if this were a Venn diagram with one circle marked "my opinions" and the other one marked "my employers' opinions", there would doubtless be some overlap. But neither I nor my employers are able to pinpoint exactly where that overlap is.
What is this Daily Blah thing?
An experiment for a column I wrote about blogging back in December 2001. All these years later, I haven't been able to kick the habit.
If it's called Daily Blah, how come you don't ... hey, wait, you're writing every day!
See? Told you I'd try harder.
Mister, you talk funny. Are you one of them furrners?
Why yes I am, as it happens. I was born, raised and educated in Great Britain. I've been living in the U.S. since 1996 and identify as British.
I say, old chap, you forgot the "u" in "colour."
No I didn't. I may identify as British, but I am also an American journalist writing for an American audience about mostly American issues. These two different sides of me are a constant source of tension. Nevertheless, Daily Blah will adhere to American English grammar and spelling.
Praise for Daily Blah:
"It is fun to watch the author's navel-gazing joy." - Sunday Times (UK)
"It's really funny and informative." - Dave Eggers, author
"The Blah is becoming a daily destination for me." - Richard Marsh, Playwright
"I like it, and I don't." - Fiona Hogg, Teacher
"Better than Xanax." - Lessley Andersen, journalist
"Dude, lay off the crack pipe." - Souris Hong-Porretta, gamesmith
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Daily Blah for... Monday, July 01, 2002
The Blah is back!
After a week of being closed with the technology age equivalent of traffic cones and police tape around it, Daily Blah is back. The problem was not so much my hosting company, which merely needed me to change some technical stuff (my domain name server information), as it was VeriSign, the big scary company that bought Network Solutions and manages all my website information. All I had to do was give Verisign those new domain name servers, and my words of wisdom would be resurrected. Alas, it turned out the only way to do that was through their website -- even the customer service guy on the other end of the phone could only do it through their website -- and this part of their website was down for the better part of a week. It's a 21st century Catch-22 that had me spitting fury down the phone for days on end. "It'll probably be fixed tomorrow," the customer service guy would suggest sheepishly, just like he did the day before.
In the meantime, my readership has scattered to the four winds. When you enter a web address and get no result, it takes a lot of commitment to think "oh, it must be having temporary difficulties. I'll try again in a week or so." And there's no way for me to sound the all-clear, save getting you all to sign up for an e-mail list -- which is, I suppose, something I should look into. Looking after a website, even a blog that's supposed to run (and write) itself, can be as taxing as minding a baby.
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