Peter Bart Joins Our Clan! BlogNosh 06/02/08

By Karina Longworth posted 3 months ago

We’d like to extend a hearty, totally sincere “welcome to the blogosphere, dude!” to Variety editor-in-chief/known blog skeptic Peter Bart, who has launched his own bloggy shingle. The first person to send in a Photoshop mockup of Bart wearing typing whilst pajamas and/or in bed and/or in a basement wins a free Spout t-shirt. Via Anne Thompson.
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Chris Thilk said 3 months ago
Bart’s blog, though, does not feature an RSS feed, which makes it all but invisible to me. I wonder why they seemed to use some old-school software for his instead of Typepad like the rest of Variety blogs stand on.
Karina Longworth said 3 months ago
“Bart’s blog, though, does not feature an RSS feed, which makes it all but invisible to me.”

Agreed. I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to subscribe to it today before giving up. Very annoying.