Comments on: Life on the Internets

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:47:16 +0000

Like tor above, I presume most team blogs have some semblance of physicality. Is your lack of physical contact typical for other sites? Maybe you should consider a holographic or 2-D projected teleconference, as I recently posed on my blog.

By: The Florida Masochist

The Florida Masochist — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:57:11 +0000

I've contributed at OTB Sports for 2 years and twice guest blogged here at OTB. James and I have never met, and the only time we ever spoke was when I called his radio show once.

Bill

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:58:41 +0000

The work situation you describe must make it far easier to disagree with your blog-mates. Keeps them a t a professional distance, I would think.

I dunno. The opposite is probably true. I've met Kevin Drum, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Spencer Ackerman, and many other left-of-center bloggers that I cite and debate. That's probably helpful in thinking of them as decent human beings with whom I differ on how to achieve public policy goals rather than "the enemy."

By: tor

tor — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:29:11 +0000

You've never met Knapp or Prather? Man, that IS weird. I never considered it. I assumed a more bricks and mortar mindset where you all touched based in person once a week or something.

It's like imagining what a person looks like from their phone voice, and that weird sense of getting it TOTALLY wrong.

The work situation you describe must make it far easier to disagree with your blog-mates. Keeps them a t a professional distance, I would think.