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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.
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Daily Blah for... Thursday, November 20, 2003
Multiple Chris Taylor Syndrome
Very happy to discover, while researching a story on search engines, that Daily Blah is the third most popular result when entering the term "Chris Taylor" into the top ten or so engines. You might think I'd be disappointed with the bronze medal. But how can I compete with Chris Taylor the recording artist, who promises to appeal to "fans of music as diverse as Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, U2 and Over the Rhine" and boasts "the official worldwide Chris Taylor website"? See, I just knew I was the unnofficial version. I only hope he doesn't sue me. And I certainly don't take pictures of the California landscape as enchanting as those of Chris Taylor no. 2.
No, I'm quite content with third place. After all, just look at all those sucker Chris Taylors below me I can thumb my nose at. Take that, Chris Taylor, CEO of Gas-Powered Games! (Not really; I've met him, he's a lovely man, and what's more, built like a brick portapotty.) In your face, Professor Chris Taylor, chair of medical biophysics at Manchester University! Eat my dust, Coach Chris Taylor of the Lafayette Leopards!
Do you think they'll help me pay the therapist's fees?
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