About six months ago, while I was deep in the editing process for my book, Rebecca Blood emailed me and asked if I would be interested in doing an interview for her series “Bloggers on Blogging.”
Rebecca is one of the people who literally wrote the book (well, a book, one of the first and best) on blogging. So I said, sure — as soon as I’m done with Dreaming in Code. We reconnected over the summer and exchanged emails on a wonderfully leisurely schedule that actually gave me time to think about my answers.
Today she posted the result. I’m grateful for the opportunity to spout off at length both about my writing and about the nature of blogging, my ideas about it, how blogging has affected national politics, and more. It’s a great series — and great company to be in.
With regard to blogging, what was your most memorable moment?
I think it would be sitting down at the computer late at night a couple of days before Bush launched the invasion of Iraq. I was heartbroken at the prospect of an unnecessary and ill-advised war. I grew up at the tail end of Vietnam and always assumed that, whatever other mistakes the nation would make in my lifetime, we would never let ourselves make that one again. I put my kids to bed, thought about the world Bush’s mistake was likely to shape for them, and poured out my heart in a post I titled Eve of Destruction (the comments are still at the old location).
When I hear people arguing that we didn’t and couldn’t know before we invaded Iraq what we know now, I recall that moment. It reminds me that many people knew just how deceptive and stupid the Iraq policy was from the start. And it makes me grateful that the Web and our blogs serve as a day-by-day and hour-by-hour collective record of what we knew and when we said it.
[tags]scott rosenberg, rebecca blood, blogging, bloggers on blogging[/tags]
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