it's go time

Monday, February 02, 2004, at 01:37PM

By Eric Richardson

I have a draft due tomorrow for my blogging paper I mentioned a few days ago. As of right now I couldn't really tell you much about where it's going. I feel like I'm right on the edge of the thesis that sparks the entire paper.

But I don't have it yet.

First off, I need to make a case for why blogs are significant. Then I need to say why it's important that a bunch of bloggers are centering their sites around their real-world location. Here are the type of notes I keep writing myself:

Geography contextualizes what you have to say into a frame of reference where I can relate to it and understand it.

It'll be interesting... After tomorrow I have a good week and a half before the final's due, so I'm sure there will definitely be a lot of revision and realignment between now and then.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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