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If You Were a Well-Paid Newspaper Columnist Covering the Silicon Valley, Would You Write This?:

Wired magazine, a scout for all that is cyberhip, marked the change with a story titled Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of. My reaction? Whatever. Blogs reside at what these days is the busy intersection of technology, voyeurism and self-absorption. (Think Survivor, Fear Factor, Looking for Love: Bachelorettes in Alaska.) And in that way they are a fine measure of what we’ve become: people who think their warped relationships, car trouble and mental illnesses are of interest to a vast audience.

Cyberhip?

This column, which treats all blogs as tedious online diaries, was written by Mike Cassidy, who is very happy to tell his Silicon Valley readers that hes never been an early adopter. The column ends with an unfunny fake blog post that has nothing in common with the last 2,000 blog posts Ive read.
This type of column—the I turned my back on a not-very-new trend of specific interest to my readers, so now, instead of catching up, Im going to make fun of it piece—is a sub-category just dominated by monopolist daily newspapers. [Matt Welch’s Warblog]