Good news. My friend Larry at work found a super cheap flight to New York City. This means I am going to see The Gates at Central Park. Special thanks to Eric, who has agreed to let me sleep on his floor. While it was a cheap fare, it’s by far the most money I’ve ever spent to see a work of art. I can’t wait. Don’t worry, I’ll take my camera and blog about it.

The flickr slide show is awesome.

I think that there is a little too much breathless talk about how revolutionary blogs are. The hype feels too much like the late nineties. Pretty soon blogs will be said to cure the intractable ills of mankind like poverty, hunger, distribution of wealth, and providing justice for all.

That said, Peggy Noonan did write an interesting piece in the WSJ today, though that caught my attention. It’s pretty clear that she gets blogging, at least the political/journalistic sort of blogs.

I found the following quote compelling.

I identify with Christopher Reeve’s reaction. Some days, when I am reading some especially well written blog post, I am shocked that there was no charge for reading writing that good.

I had a similar reaction when I first came across the GNU manifesto and started using Free Software. I couldn’t believe something so good could be free.