January 13, 2005As Adam Penenberg points out in Wired News today, when bloggers work as journalists, their personal websites suddenly get *boring as hell* or simply disappear. And there's a reason for it—one vaguely malicious, off-handed comment like this one written about me on LA Observed a while back which, strawman-style, hints at a conflict of interest between blogs and print work (and totally misreads my print story, to boot) can needlessly complicate someone's career (or, in my case, alleged, so-called career-ish-like thing).
Which is pretty funny and ironic and all. Heh.
And, because LA Observed is a weblog, its writer didn't even contact me for comment, or extend a willingness to understand that people wearing different hats can recuse themselves from other coverage. Stupid webloggers. (Yes, I make another ironic joke with you, my friend.)
But yes: in the interest of avoiding any appearance of impropriety for print work, this website has a really limited scope and kinda sucks. And—since it's been mentioned elsewhere on the intarwebs—even though I'm leaving my position as editorial director at Gawker Media in a couple of weeks, I still don't think it'll get that much more fascinating at this URL. This blog doesn't pay the bills; the freelance contracts do. Err, they sort of do. Gulp.
Oh, unless I get some cool new STDs or something. Then the blogging will really heat up.
