An Apology to Joe Sharkey
Some travel blogs are all attitude and no original research, seemingly typed by hung-over media manqués whose idea of reporting is to tumble out of bed late each morning and desperately scan the newspapers for items to make sarcastic comments about.
Thus
spake New York Times business travel columnist Joe Sharkey back in 2006. This anti-blog broadside was delivered less than a month after I
made impish sport of Sharkey for one of the NYT's clumsier attempts to slap online video on every subject, no matter how dull. But that wasn't Joe's fault, and in the aforelinked article, he calls out a few sites he likes even while slaggin' blogs in general. Sharkey notes that both his personal site and his attic are perpetually under construction, and "don't hold your breath waiting for my own blog to go up. The attic comes first, I am reliably informed." Well, how's that attic coming? Let's check
Sharkey's blog.
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