1/2 In the glory years of the blogosphere, much was made of bloggers needing to be opinionated and to write in a less formal voice than traditional media. If I look back to my 2003-05 posts, there’s a looseness to them — I think it was mostly endearing, but sometimes embarrassing (eg recalling my “Liv Tyler waved at me” post after the ‘Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ movie premiere in Wellington, Dec 2003). Anyway, from 2006 my writing style formalized, became more journalistic…

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