Q: When did you write "The Use of Weblogs in Literature"?

A: For BloggerCon 2004. I think.

Q: What happened to it.

A: They didn't use it.

Q: Why not?

A: I sounded paranoid? Like a nut-case? Looney?

I don't know why.

Why could you see a use for weblogs in education, law, business, etc., and not see a use for the weblog in literature?

Is a weblog beneath literature?

Do the people who study weblogs, at universities, not see a use? I know the people who teach literature look down on weblogs. But why do the people who study weblogs not think they would be used for literature?

It defies explanation.

Q: You could argue that literature will not survive the computer.

A: Indeed, Andrew Keen does argue that.

He published a book called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. It was an expansion of an article in the Weekly Standard.

I compared it to Norman Podhoretz's article in Partisan Review, 50 years before, "The Know-Nothing Bohemians," saying that beat writing caused juvenile delinquency.

Q: That sounds like the neocon party line.

A: It is the neocon party line.

You ask William Kristol about it and he will start talking.

From Partisan Review to the Weekly Standard is a straight line.

Q: The beatniks led to the hippies. The hippies ended the Vietnam War. Who is going to end the War on Totoism? You? By making fun of Bush?

A: Bush makes fun of himself. The neocons make fun of themselves. They don't need any help from me. Cheney makes fun of himself. Condi Rice makes fun of herself.

They don't need any help from me.