Oh, God! Look, Its a Blog!
Gawker has Casually Jested about the Times Article attempting to be trendy by talking about blogs.
One choice Segment:
One of the first to make the transition was Baghdad blogger known as Salam Pax, who wrote an online war diary from Iraq. Last year Grove Press published a collection of his work, "Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi."
When we were in the 5th Grade we remember reading Zlata's Diary, the tragic tale of a girl surviving the war in Sarajevo. Many people at the time had compared it to Anne Frank's Diary, though Zlata is still alive collecting royalties from the book. We imagine Salam Pax's Diary to be much the same: the token war diary to commemorate the life of some poor schmo.
Maybe we're just jealous our Blog hasn't yet turned into a book deal.
Though we know that Some People are expecting this:
An editor "found my blog only three weeks after I started it and asked if I was interested in doing a book," he said, adding, "I was so surprised I thought he was my friend Larry playing a joke on me."
Also according to the article there are close to over 10 million blogs. If only all those people could read. Or maybe we're just jealous they aren't reading us.
One choice Segment:
One of the first to make the transition was Baghdad blogger known as Salam Pax, who wrote an online war diary from Iraq. Last year Grove Press published a collection of his work, "Salam Pax: The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi."
When we were in the 5th Grade we remember reading Zlata's Diary, the tragic tale of a girl surviving the war in Sarajevo. Many people at the time had compared it to Anne Frank's Diary, though Zlata is still alive collecting royalties from the book. We imagine Salam Pax's Diary to be much the same: the token war diary to commemorate the life of some poor schmo.
Maybe we're just jealous our Blog hasn't yet turned into a book deal.
Though we know that Some People are expecting this:
An editor "found my blog only three weeks after I started it and asked if I was interested in doing a book," he said, adding, "I was so surprised I thought he was my friend Larry playing a joke on me."
Also according to the article there are close to over 10 million blogs. If only all those people could read. Or maybe we're just jealous they aren't reading us.
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