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February 1, 2005

andrew takes a break

Andrew Sullivan is taking a break from blogging. Regardless of what you feel about his positions either on paper or in the bedroom, he was there back in tha day when blogging was mostly just a thing info tech and HTML geeks were doing (me: 1998 or so). 9/11 shot his blog into an immense readership. Today, the concept of a blog is identified by his style of blogging and writing, and not of the personal diary format which was how things started out. He helped define the blogosphere as it is known today. I'm glad he's not doing a melodramatic blog suicide note that you so often read when people decide to quit or take a break. He's over himself for a while, which is cool.

And he promises a redesign...let's hope he fixes that damnable light text on dark background, which makes my eyes get tracers from the letters like I'm on acid...

Posted by jimbo at February 1, 2005 11:29 AM

Comments

I've had my disagreements with dearest Andy over the years - he certainly was the Original Self-Loathing Conservative Homosexual back in the day, but he's gotten a bit better. Must be getting some action in his MuscleGlutes (TM).

Anyway, he wrote a very good article and book review in the NYTimes two weeks ago, and they've waived their usual achive-in-a-week setting for it. It's about Abu Ghraib / torture issue, and he has some interesting things to say about war-hawk responsibility for how that all happened. Highly recommended.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/books/review/books-sullivan.html

Posted by: Clever Monkey at February 1, 2005 8:07 PM