Bruce Sterling is akin to some kind of cool newfound biological Dad in my literary-geek world (where William Gibson is the cool unmarried Uncle). Teamed with Wired Magazine and given a blog, well, it would be a match made in heaven, right?
Wrong.
There are so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to start. Could it be the fact that no one has taught him how to resize images to fit the screen? Could it be the horrendous font? Or the 1993 style colour/graphic scheme? Or that he seems to write his posts in poetry form? Now, don't get me wrong, I like this guy. I mean, I've just got done reading the whole of The Hacker Crackdown, and I'm working my way to reading some of his books. He's destined for deity status in my brain.
But please. Please. For the love of god, someone point him towards Blogger. Someone give him a cup of tea and teach him how to resize images. Someone tell him that he's got a fanbase that need more than what he's doing. Because it's painful. It's really really painful.
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