Jeff Jarvis on bloggers (via Instapundit)
...in the blogosphere, nobody knows you're a dog... or unmale... or unwhite. There are plenty of bloggers I read who are demographic mysteries to me. I honestly don't know the race or gender of many bloggers and commenters I read and -- listen carefully now -- I don't care. When I was raised in this country, we were taught that it was a goal of our culture -- melting-pot nirvana -- to get to the point where race and gender didn't matter. Well, we've finally created a medium where that's possible. But now we're trying to make race and gender matter again. How crazy is that? That is, to paraphrase my West Virginia father [you see, I'm hillbilly, actually], bassackwards.
Indeed. My name appears on my website (and hence a clue to my "race") but in reality it doesn't need to. I am just an average, 4+ years ago young, middle-class Canadian husband and father. Everything else is window-dressing.
To paraphrase James Carville (for the billionth time) it is the ideas, stupid!
