The Summer of Blogs

Posted by Lex Konrad in Dispatches | May 27, 2004

Blogging’s not just for geeks and angst-ridden teens anymore. Sitting in your underwear and typing stuff on the Internet’s got mainstream cachet. The summer of blogs is upon us.

If reports from the front are to be believed, a sinister cabal of bloggers is taking over. This week they’re the talk of the town, pretentious naysayers notwithstanding. Book and movie deals are seemingly spreading like wildfire, this despite the fact that blog rhymes with frog, and bloggers have yet to produce anything that looks remotely like a book or a movie.

But they’re typing stuff… on the Internet!

The Young Turks are back, rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the dot-bomb, ready to pump-n-dump all over again. And forget (yawn) reality teevee—now we’ve got really real hipster dating blog-a-log stuff: Survivor and Blind Date all rolled into one. Oh boy! Next up: American Blogger Idol, Who Wants to Marry a Blogger?

For Blog or Money?

The phenomenon isn’t limited to our little town, either. Washington (a distant suburb of New York) is abuzz with the latest bloggy blogness. Young senatorial staffer Jessica Cutler (aka Washingtonienne) blogged about her sordid dealings in money-for-sex, and then Wonkette blogged about the blog, and then some people got mad, and then Daze blogged about the blog about the blog (with pictures!), and there may have been a threesome, and now there are book rumors and teevee appearances and Playboy offers and so on. Confused? Don’t be! She typed stuff… on the Internet!

Hell, even Bill Gates is getting wise. He wants big companies to pay him so they can type stuff… on the Internet!

What does it all mean? Damned if I know. Ask my agent.

One thing’s certain, though: It’s gonna be one hot, bloggy summer. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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