To: Freddie (re blogging)

There’s something annoying about the chronological ordering and about the flat, endless chattering of blogs. Blogs feel disorganized to me…there’s no selection and emphasis between entries, it’s just someone’s core dump. I like the word blog because it’s so close to blob. Eno had a solution for this in his diary: There were regular day entries, talking about things like scrubbing the shower or having dinner with Elvis Costello, which is fun in it’s own right, but after the diary entries, in the last 1/5 of the book, he organizes all of his current (and recurrent) projects/ideas with background and details on each, alongside significant letters he wrote that year, etc. That’s the meat of the book in a lot of ways, because gets beyond all the day-to-day bullshit.

So when I started a blog, I decided not to make it public until I knew I’d take it seriously and have something to say. Too many blogs out there just say “I’m hungry and I have a headache and I just finished brushing my teeth, and I talked to my mom on the phone…”

As for the popularity, we’re the me generation. We all want to be rock stars. So we want everyone to listen to us and see how cool we are. Plus blogs are easier to set up than a home page. And there’s the theraputic quality of diaries in general…

(this is going on my blog, btw)