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I’ve been so defensive of blogging recently. (What a sad sentence.) I’m noticing small disses everywhere: in the movie Contagion, the hero claims that “blogs are graffiti with punctuation.” Also, Jude Law plays a nutcase blogger who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. (Of course he is! Bloggers are wacky!) The New Yorker had a cartoon in its Fashion Week issue poking fun at blogs. And in my own life, when I recently showed someone a post I’d written, his tone was sad: “Oh, you blog.”

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