BLOGGER is a person who keeps a Web log, or blog for short. The idea started sometime in 1998, but really caught on in 2000, to the extent that there are now thousands of bloggers and blogs about. At the beginning, the concept was that a person kept a diary of their explorations of the World Wide Web, making it public for others to inspect and follow up. But as blogging has expanded, that simple idea has been so much modified that it is now difficult to get two bloggers to agree on what the term means. Many blogs are online diaries chronicling activities and events as they happen to the writer, often with no reference to the Web at all. Some writers create only brief entries, while others provide extended essays on life, the universe and everything. There are several sites where people can create accounts and publish their blogs, most notably www.blogger.com, where blogs often have names like The Magnificent Melting Object, or Exploits of a Dwarf Lover.

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Tuesday, Feb 3, 2004

'SUP FOOLS
I'm working 'round the clock on a Blogumentary trailer for the blogtalk conference in Vienna, Austria next week. It will probably suck a little, being my first shot at assembling something from all this footage. I've been getting some great email suggestions on where to go with this bad boy - keep 'em coming. Meanwhile...

Matrix Reloaded rocked. FX were mind-blowing. Questions remain. Beer and philosophizing are a must.

Gov Pawlenty pushes budget through. I'd say the Dems pussed out, but I should have done more.

I say, have you been to the Pussy Ranch?

NY Times discovers Gawker. I'll post my interview with the lovely/sassy Ms. Spiers soon.

Got drugz for my sinus infection, no doubt stemming from my wisdom teeth removal.

I had a White Stripes concert dream. Meg wasn't there, Jack White was all cool in sunglasses playing guitar and a different cool dude in shades was singing - in Jack White's voice. Like Jack White split into two people. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut Meg out of the Stripes - honest! Did I mention I'm a Gemini?

LISTENING: White Stipes Elephant (duh), Beta Band, Junior/Senior, Joy Division after hearing them at Brit's Pubs last night.

Tuesday, Feb 2, 2004

NnNn

Watch the trailer v1.1 (Quicktime, 16MB) Watch the trailer (Windows , 13MB)

BLOGUMENTARY PREVIEW TRAILER v1.0
You know you want it! Rebecca Blood, Matt Haughey, Meg Hourihan, Jason Kottke, Anil Dash, Jeff Jarvis, David Weinberger, and all those funny people on the street who don't know what a blog is. And a few who do. It's all here in my first crack at a trailer for Blogumentary, which I was up all night editing and FedEx'd to Vienna for the blogtalk conference. I touch on several themes: blog origins, 9/11 impact, relationships. I didn't even get to journalism, one of my main themes. Much more work to do getting the blog story. Work like this. I want to talk to that blogger in Kentucky, find the bloggers you haven't heard of who are making (or breaking) relationships with their blogs, making their voices heard, telling their story.

That's why I need you, dear blogfan. "What? Me? But, but... how can I help? Also, why would I help cuz I don't actually like you or your stupid movies?" Well here's how, blog-hater. Note the shiny new PayPal link, which is currently my only source of funding for this documentary. Now, you could certainly do other things with your blog monies... you could give it to the fat kid or the naughty girl for example, both frigging excellent causes.