Scripting News isn’t pleased with Mary Anne Ostrum’s interview with Marc Andreessen in the Murk:
The SJ Merc interview with Marc Andreessen (founder of Netscape) asks if he has a blog. “No,” he said. “I have a day job. I don’t have the time or ego need.” People used to say stuff like that about email, believe it or not.
Mary Anne is the one who wrote a story on warbloggers without mentioning Reynolds, which was actually pretty funny. I used to talk to her when was on the Sacramento beat and I like her, so I’m inclined to give her a break while she comes up to speed on this tech stuff. Her political reporting was first-rate, especially the backgrounder on Gray Davis, but politics gets no respect in this Valley.
I don’t even understand what’s offensive about the comment, frankly.
Blogging is a pleasure. It feeds an ego need/desire in everyone who does it. As do countless other things. I mean, what’s so offensive?
I work under the assumption that most people don’t read, and an even tinier percentage likes to write. Those who do derive pleasure from it, and it’s not because they love wiggling their fingers.
Why do people join bowling leagues? To feed the ego need of being part of a team, or of being good at something, or of winning, or of all of it.
I suppose the difference is that we rarely admit that amateur sports, office bull sessions, or most of our relationships in life involve ego needs. [shrug]