It would be nice if people, especially reporters, were always respectful of what others chose to do with their life. But there’s no deep revolutionary significance in mean-spiritedness.

I don’t believe this statement is accurate. I dothink sometimes people get that impression, because big media sometimes do stories about hierarchy and size and goals, while there’s a substantial amount of social pressure in the bogosphere to deny that exists – so you end up with outsiders writing about what’s clear to the outsider, uncomfortable to the insider, and the mental tension is resolved by dismissing the outsider as “doesn’t get it”.

The story about people putting in with their hobbies is a human-interest story. It’s reported, but doesn’t make a big spash by its very nature. The big social trends story, the What It All Means piece, is likely to be widely discussed. But, really, it’s not that bloggers are some new breed of cat that the old dinosaurs just can’t get because they’re too unhip – that’s flattering oneself too much.

One of the few hundred and happy.