All talk here is of blogging. X. (but what should his nickname be?) has started a blog. And as I told him, it took only four days for it to be linked to by Jodi. Four days! I told him to go with Typepad because of the Stats and Referers. That’s where it all happens, I told him, when he expressed surprise that I knew not only that he’d started a blog, but I’d already linked to it.
There are no secrets in the blogosphere, I said, remembering the novelisation of Flash Gordon, where Ming and Flash meet one another on the astral plane before they ever encounter one another in the flesh. Flash meditates; Ming sensed his presence from the other side of the universe. Who was he?, Ming wondered, impressed by Flash’s psychic force. None of this is in the film, of course. But then the novel is only a novelisation of the film, its author intent on writing something profound.
I told X. I’d I felt a powerful new force in the blogosphere, and I knew it had to be him. But which one of us was Ming and which Flash Gordon? You’ll be linked to by others pretty soon, I said. Stats and referers, I said.
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