Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry explains to Newsweek the difference between doing his print column and blogging.
You have a blog now. How is that different from your print column?
Let's just take a theoretical example. Let's say a toilet explodes somewhere in Wales. Now in the old days, if a toilet were to explode in Wales, it would run first in a Welsh newspaper, some reader there might see it, clip it out, mail it to his friend in Boston. His friend might say: "Oh, Dave Barry might be interested in this," and send it to me. And weeks could elapse before the world knew about that exploding toilet in Wales. Now thanks to the miracle of the Internet, everybody can read the Welsh newspaper story as soon as it's printed, and I get 6,000 links of it, and I put it up on my blog [blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog] and the whole world is alerted to the danger of the exploding toilet in a matter of minutes sometimes. So if you don't think that's progress, then God help you.
Sounds like progress to us. Barry is currently promoting his new book Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? (Crown). His blog can be found here. (via Readers Read)
