Hafner's NYT piece on obsessive blogging...

Katie Hafner's piece on obsessive blogging has just come out in the NYT (it's on the front page right now [2004-05-26 16:19:11]). SIMS kids have been in the NYT so much lately that Paul even said it seems to be some sort of unspoken graduation requirement. I'll read the piece right now and post my comments later.

For Some, the Blogging Never Stops

By KATIE HAFNER

Published: May 27, 2004

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, 26, a graduate student at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley who has studied bloggers, said that for some people blogging has supplanted e-mail as a way to procrastinate at work.

People like Mr. Pierce, who devote much of their free time to the care and feeding of their own blogs and posting to other blogs, do so largely because it makes them feel productive even if it is not a paying job.

The procrastination, said Scott Lederer, 31, a fellow graduate student with Mr. Hall, has a collective feel to it. "You feel like you're participating in something important, because we're all doing it together," he said.

This isn't what I find most interesting about blogging, for sure. You'll have to wait a while to hear more about that...

Here's a classic quote: "'Here he is working all night on something read by five second cousins and a dog, and I'm willing to pay him. The Web's illusion of immortality is sometimes more attractive than actual cash.'"

Full disclosure: I'll take the cash.

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