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Keith Waterhouse on weblogs (redux)

While digging around in my site to try and find some quotes for a piece I’m presenting at EUvolt today (I’m so bloody busy my ears are bleeding), I stumbled upon an old piece on Newspaper columnists that Keither Waterhouse wrote years ago for The Journalist and which I – rather cheekily – transcribed because it was so pertinent to webloggers. Read it immediately: Keith Waterhouse on Weblogs?

“It is 106 years since Jerome K Jerome related his difficulties in trying to open a tin of pineapple in Three Men In A Boat. Unless you can improve this classic account, keep your problems with packaging to yourself.”