Ok, I'm done with my book tour and back to my laptop.
So, lets not call it a blog then.
I agree with much of your rant against blogs Mac, although not entirely. Blogs are a little like New York City theatre, home to the best and the worst in the world. Of course there are some awful, awful blogs out there, but there are also some great ones. It's a new and really interesting way of communicating information, and I think a lot depends on the information being communicated. But this isn't just about blogs.
The reason I have been an advocate of creating a blog for this version of book is because I believe that, like me, many people are fascinated by process and like a nosy into where and how people work. I think these are very relevant things to record, so there I couldn't agree with you more. Given their current relevance I figured a blog would be an easy and publicly accessible way of doing this. It depends on how publicly we want to convey the inner workings of the project. I personally want as many people to see the project as possible, but you are right about knowing that people are watching might change the way we do it. I guess we'll find out. Calling it a blog doesn't bother me. We had a pretty good book website last time round, and we never felt like calling it a moving magazine instead of a website. But then again, we were selling copies of book last time round, so I suppose it was a little more like a commercial enterprise then. Alright mate, we can continue giving each other shit next week when I get back to NYC. And... um... speaking of book, has anyone seen it? it was supposed to arrive in Belfast yesterday morning.
