Is there a job where all you do all day is get interviewed? Because I think I could do that job. And if there isn't maybe someone could create it for me. The job could actually be like a reverse talk show, where celebrity guests come on and ask me questions and I could talk about myself and let them know what I thought of the latest album, movie, book, or whatever. If Tom Cruise came on I could let him know what I thought of MI2 and tell him he should do more movies with PT Anderson and less with John Woo. And then I could tell him about the time a friend of mine saw Nicole Kidman in Paris. I think we'd both enjoy that.

It would be like this weblog actually, but on telly and with people and maybe once in a while I'd go somewhere and do on-location bits and talk about myself there. And when we have bands on I'll sit in with them and we'll play my favourite songs instead of their latest single. So if you run a network or something I think you should give it some thought. It's just crazy enough to work, I think.

The reason I thought about this is I was actually interviewed today by two students from the school of journalism. They're working on a project on weblogs and wanted my opinions on weblogs contra journalism especially in regard to the debate about the credibility of what you read on a weblog. It was a lot of fun and it was cool to get to talk about a lot of the stuff, which Jens and I had discussed last week.
If you don't live here you might not have noticed, but there was a segment on weblogs on national television Thursday night and Jens was one of the people they interviewed. So the next day he came over and we talked about the segment and weblogs in general. So a lot of the things we went over came up today as we talked about Jayson Blair, Salam Pax, moblogs, revealing a part of yourself online, and a lot of other stuff. The best part was I was able to talk about all the things relating to weblogs, which have nothing to do with online diaries and journals.

The only thing which was tough was thinking in sound bytes. Because if there's one thing I'm not it's brief. I never say anything using one sentence if I can use a lot instead. So summarizing why weblogs are cool in five sentences or less is not an easy task for me.
I'll probably have more information about the project later this week and a couple of URLs as well. One of them took a lot of pictures of me, so if one or two of them by some coincidence comes out with me looking like a normal person I'll try to get a hold of them and upload them somewhere. I'm no good at posing for pictures, so I'm sure most of them have me looking like I'm in some kind of pain, but maybe we'll get lucky and one of them comes out alright.

Oh, my weblog had it's second birthday on March 7th and I forgot. Silly me.