on blogs and blogging

i received an email regarding this article about blogs that appeared in the new york review of books. quite lengthy, it seemed like a well-researched article as basis for a book, an anthology of blogs. it even contains the history of blogging. it ends with this...

Finally, I think I get the superhero fixation. It's the flying. It's the suspension of punctuation and good manners and even identity. Bloggers at their computers are Supermen in flight. They break the rules. They go into their virtual phone booths, put on their costumes, bring down their personal villains, and save the world. Anonymous or not, they inhabit that source of power and hope. Then they come back to their jobs, their dogs, and their lives, and it's like, "Dude, the ball."

Blog writing is id writing—grandiose, dreamy, private, free-associative, infantile, sexy, petty, dirty. Whether bloggers tell the truth or really are who they claim to be is another matter, but WTF. They are what they write. And you can't fake that. ;-)

and this for me, sums up all that i do here as cc...

(special thanks to my friend who sent me this email. you know who you are! :))