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The increasingly inaccurately-named blog of journalist and futurist Chris Taylor. Either the most sporadically brilliant amateur blog, the most brilliantly amateur sporadic blog, or the most amateur sporadic brilliance on the Web since 2001.
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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.
Do you write any other blogs, by chance? Could that have something to do with the fact that Daily Blah isn't always Daily?
Yes -- the Future Boy blog for Business 2.0. And yes. If you want true, editorially-mandated daily coverage from me, that's probably the best place to look.
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... Monday, September 27, 2004
Lost in Space
Sorry I've been so lax about posting again, dear reader. It's been the week from Hellishly Busy. Seattle was just the beginning of a very active period for me. Tomorrow I'm off to the Mojave desert to cover the next launch of SpaceShipOne. Two dream assignments in as many weeks. A reporter could get used to this.
Don't take offense, loyal Blah-ites, but I often think of you as a pack of ravenous dogs. If I don't throw you a hunk of juicy red meat every so often, you'll come after me. I don't have any juicy red meat today, but will you take this amusing crab cake of a link? It is, speaking of space travel, the revival of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the radio series, with most of the original cast. The script isn't as gloriously, intellectually manic as pure Douglas Adams, and it isn't even based on one of his better books, but it's still a tonic for the ear (try the surround sound version), and part of me has been waiting for this moment since 1981. I'm a little more trepidatious about the forthcoming Disney movie -- sorry, Mos Def as Ford Prefect? Whu? -- although this teaser trailer is succinct, referential and funny. Plus here is some must-see video of the movie's Marvin the Paranoid Android costume, created by Henson studios, being tried on for the first time. It's a little cutesy, to be sure, but at least the large round head is more suggestive of a "brain the size of a planet" than in the BBC version. And yes, since you ask, I am proud to be such a complete geek.
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