{"id":333,"date":"2004-09-28T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/i-am-the-worlds-expert\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T03:17:00","slug":"i-am-the-worlds-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/i-am-the-worlds-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"I am the world’s expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am sitting in a friend’s apartment, a couple Negronis<\/a> to the wind, in rejuvenation mode after my colloquium this afternoon at Brandeis (convincing the locals that the universe is accelerating, but that we don’t know why — not a hard sell, really). So I’m in no condition to comment on the mild kerfluffle<\/a> that has broken out, ironically immediately after the announcement of 411blog<\/a>, in response to Matthew Yglesias’ lament<\/a> that there aren’t enough expert bloggers. But I was glad to see my honor (and, incidentally, the honor of some other people) defended by PZ Myers<\/a> and other bloggy luminaries.<\/p>\n

However, given my druthers, I’d prefer to have Fafblog<\/a> exhort people to send me money. Flattery is nice, but it doesn’t pay the mortgage.<\/p>\n

(Honestly, there’s a pretty basic fact here — by percentage, most people in the world are not experts. They’re not especially good writers, either. This is one of the first things you realize, I thought everyone knew, when you rambled around the internet — there’s a very good reason why magazines have editors, rather than just being first-come-first-published. The worthwhile stuff is there, but you do have to look for it a little.)
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