Why did you start blogging?

I started in 1999, and didn’t call it blogging, although it was: comments, chronological posts, archives, etc. You can still pull it up on the Internet Archives Wayback Machine: search for “Message from Edge City”. The company folded, and I lost all my stuff. Grrrr.

How long have you been Blogging?

Since 1999.

What makes a blog a good read in your mind?

True Voice: authoritative and passionate expertise.

What blogs are you currently reading?

Yikes. The whole Web 2.0 Workgroup (Arrington, MacManus, Mernit, Chang, etc.), David Weinberger, Steve Rubel, Scoble, Doc Searls, and a lot of other tech people. But I wander around a lot. I don’t like to read the same things all the time.

What has changed since you started your blog?

Hmmm. Everything. Including the blog. I lost Message from Edge City, started Timing, shifted to Get Real in 2003.

Why do you think blogging is so disruptive?

Because its new, and new communication media destablize power structures as people shift their attention from the old to the new.

Where do you see blogs in 5 or even 10 years?

Mainstream: the most common mechanism to connect and collaborate in a public, many-to-many fashion.

What is the important aspect of a person’s blog?

The readers. Well, that’s too glib. The dynamic between the angle, the thread of the blogger’s discourse and the response in the readers.

How long did it take you to build your base?

Well, I’m 52, so about a half a century.

Is there anything else you would like to speak about when it comes to blogging in general that I might not have asked?

I think there are enormous changes coming, based on RSS, aggregation, and new paradigms of interaction and editorializing.