THIN SKINNED BLOGGERS….Speaking of the blogosphere, are we a touchy bunch or what? After guest-blogging for Dan Drezner last week, David Greenberg wrote a breezy piece for the New York Times that struck me as pretty complimentary toward the craft of blogging. Here’s what he said:
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Good blogging turns out to be harder than it looks.
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Serious bloggers spend a lot of time searching out items to blog about and display a remarkable breadth of knowledge.
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Blog commenters can be a vitriolic lot.
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Good blogs have a voice, though sometimes gimmicks take their place.
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Yep, good blogging turns out to be a lot harder than it looks.
If there’s anything in this list that’s not true, I’d like to hear it. What’s more, the piece was written with self-deprecating good humor. But if the links back at Dan’s place are any indication, the conservative blogosphere ripped into David’s piece as if he’d flushed a printout of Instapundit down a toilet.
For all their posturing, conservative bloggers sure are a thin-skinned crowd. Get a grip, folks.
