You're more real to the world if you have a blog 

Twitter made me notice that blogs are getting to be identity pages or legitimizers in a way. When I get e-mail telling me people have added me as a Twitter friend I check them out if I have time -- go to their Twitter pages and see if I know them, see if I know their friends, click through to their blogs if they've specified one. If they don't list a blog, or some kind of web page, they're nobody to me, and I'm suspicious of them. It's almost the same thing with blog commenters who don't show links to their own blogs.

Sounds elitist, but sometimes you want to avoid the rabble 

I was agreeing yesterday with a commenter on another blog about how the crowd of little boys on Digg may not serve them that well in the long run. YouTube is the same way. I wanted a place to store some videos for work and at the same time provide an easy mechanism for college faculty members to grab them for viewing by their students on course pages or LMSs. In this case I didn't want or need promotion of the videos from YouTube among their crowd (they're about integrating employee safety into business interests). I chose Blip.tv. Just seemed more dignified.

Never thought I'd hear that 

Ron Paul is getting some blog love for his remark during last night's GOP debate that he trusts the internet more than he trusts mainstream media. It'll be the only place he gets it. I didn't watch all of the post-game show, but didn't hear it brought up on MSNBC.

Olbermann cracked me up, though. He sees a parallel with after-game rehashing too. During programs like that he IDs Matthews as the Casey McCall to his Dan Rydell: "I'm Keith Olbermann, 'longside Chris Matthews." Olbermann used to be a sportscaster. I never watched the real SportsCenter, so I don't know; maybe he started that 'longside thing and he's imitating the imitators of himself. Or maybe they all say it, seems like I've heard local play-by-play announcers introduce their booth partners that way. Sounds so nice and folksy and corny.