Noah Buhayar, a journalism grad student at Berkeley, wrote a fun article for MarketWatch that combines a profile of me (specifically my job at VentureBeat) with an overview of blogging as a profession. Naturally, my inner fameball is just thrilled to see people writing about me (they should do it more often!), but I also think Noah did a good job capturing the sense that the field is still figuring itself out.
I asked a friend if my quotes sounded defensive, and he said, "No, you sound smug." Which seems about right.
From "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho," an essay by Wesley Yang published in the winter 2008 issue of n+1:
I had come to New York five years earlier, to create a life for myself there. I had not created a life for myself there. I had wanted to find the emerging writers and thinkers of my generation. I had found the sycophants, careerists, and media parasites who were redefining mediocrity for the 21st century. I had wanted to remain true to myself as a writer, and also to succeed; I wanted to be courageous and merciless in defense of the downtrodden, and I wanted to be celebrated for it. This was a naive and puerile desire and one that could not be realized -- at least not by me, not in this world.
This is a depressingly accurate description of my aspirations, circa age 18 -- and yes, in moments of weakness, circa age 26.
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