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By David Rothman

More from Jay Rosen, via the Huffington Post, which continues to have a much-better S/N ratio than I’d expected.

“Mailer’s first two tries at the Huffington Post I choose to call practice swings,” Rosen writes. “Mailer the blogger has not yet appeared with a bat in his hand. Of course he was correct in 2002: writing seriously for the Internet (and learning to think with a link) ‘would use up what I have left.’”

My take: Can one really write seriously for the Net when we don’t even have bleepin’ permanent links? I hope Mailer sticks with books. Needless to say, a well-stocked national digital library system in the TeleRead vein would help in the permanence department.

I’d write much more except it’s my wedding anniversary, and Carly and I need to go out and eat. If that makes me a blogger-manqué for the day, so be it.

Domain squatting alert: Apparently someone else has beaten Norman Mailer to normanmailer.com–an Aussie named Paul Holmes. Ugh, hello, Authors Guild? Here’s one case where I’d side with you! If Paul Holmes’ real name were Norman Mailer and he were running a business, I’d understand. Instead, however, Holmes apparently has bought up The Name to hold it for ransom.

 
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