Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Where is the Metablog?

Neil Linderman emails me to ask whether I am a misogynist, whether I like Lou Reed's music and if I hate people only using the final bracket in lists. I answered, roughly, no, yes and I suppose so. Neil seems to have been so startled by the fact that I replied at all that he wrote a longish entry in his blog about it - here - what struck me about this was, first, that he was so surprised and, secondly, that this blog business is becoming very self-referential. We are all talking in this new code in public. Somewhere,as in Borges' Library of Babel, there must be the metablog, the blog that decodes all others. Where is it? Or are bloggers, like the inhabitants of the library, destined to wander forever in a futile search?
Posted by Bryan Appleyard at 8:55 am

3 comments:

  1. Bryan AppleyardApril 21, 2006 4:23 pm

    I've been wondering that myself, Darren. His evidence was that there were no women on my links page. There was, in fact one, Lesley Chamberlain. But I don't think I betray this failing elsewhere. Far from it....

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  2. Bryan AppleyardApril 21, 2006 8:24 pm

    I had thought of that Google metablog thing and you have a point. Also Technorati might qualify, though there are many imperfections in that site. But that may just be a way of saying the net is the metablog. In fact, that could be the answer. The metablog is everywhere and nowhere. I have a feeling a man called Harvey Mansfield at Harvard is good on the sex differences you mention. Wrote a good essay on manliness some year back and there is now a book.

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