Story in today's LA Times on the blogging confab I co-hosted with Susannah Breslin a couple of weeks ago (BoingBoing founder Mark Frauenfelder was among the panelists, and the Google/Pyra hoo-ha broke there):
A contradictory mix of anonymity and intimacy is also part of the blogosphere's nature. You can, for example, know what [Heather] Havrilesky's fourth grade teacher told her about the Apocalypse but never know what makes her laugh. You can, as one blogger confides, be a vixen in the blogosphere but a wallflower in person. In the spirit of intimacy, [Doc] Searls confesses why the line to the bathroom was so long — he was in there blogging.
LAT Story (registration required), View scanned copy of printed edition (Thanks, Gabe!) Discuss, Link to LFTB digital audio archive (hear the event via streaming MP3)
