Of course the answer to the age old question of what does a Scotsman wear under his kilt is……his shoes.
Steve MacLaughlin, in Frank Paynter’s latest interview
I love Frank Paynter’s interviews because they remind me of questions I didn’t know I had–for example, what would a Scotsman who was a Mormon wear under his kilt? While researching this topic, I learned the answer to another question: “Does a Google search on “Mormon underwear photo” turn up lots of porno?”
The answer to that one is yes.
I don’t share MacLaughlin’s scorn of bloggers-who-blog-about-blogging, but he does say some interesting stuff in the interview:
I believe that there has been less debate over Rousseau’s “The Social Contract” or “Waiting For Godot” by Samuel Beckett than there has been over what blogging is or what it means in some larger social context. History always repeats itself and blogging is the latest iteration of personal journals, which is not a new concept to say the least.
And, as always, Paynter says some really good stuff:
Some bloggers, for example Dave Winer, are unashamed blogging evangelists. Some, like Chris Locke, have extended their personal publishing into blog space. Some, like AKMA, find blogging to be an online community building opportunity….
Paynter’s insights are so unlike the heavy-handed parodies of A-list bloggers John Scoble posted on his site a while ago. To condense its long, unfunny slam at Dave Winer:
10. Print Dave claims he invented everything.
20. Print Dave thinks he’s sooooo great.
30. Goto 10.
It reads like a high-tech version of Limbaugh-does-Clinton. Ugh.
If somebody wanted to parody Winer’s blog, it would be a lot funnier to write something that sounds like Winer’s blog–RSS, Harvard, dinner with friends, what I said last year, how morality should shape software standards. A good parody would have short entries, lots of links, and some funny thumbnail images.
A good parody, like Winer himself, would be fun to read.