I've been in Time many times, but I've only been in the Times one time.

Hello, and welcome to all who have read my New York Times Circuits piece on hoax blogs.

If you're here, I presume it's by virtue of your having Googled my name and found my blog. No matter how you got here, however, you'll see that I've not been at all good about updating this blog, and I do regret that. When I long ago started Flap Flap Wiggle, I intended it to be an everyday thing. It was at the urging of my friend Chris, the author of Daily Blah. But my commitment to FFW has been, as you see, less than distinguished.

Ah, well. This of course, is a common affliction among those who begin blogs, no?

Actually, though, my writing does appear quite regularly. If my Times piece is the first time you've seen my byline, I invite you to check out my extensive work at Wired News.

That's especially true because I suspect many of you from the blogosphere will be arriving here irate that my story, on first reference, used the term "Web log" rather than "Weblog."

I'd like to let you know - in advance of my piece running - that I'm well aware that the proper usage is "Weblog." But New York Times style is to use "Web log." There's nothing I could do about it. It was my first piece in the Times, and I had no standing to challenge the style they've settled on.

But I hope you'll see from my work at Wired News that I do understand what blogs are, I am tapped into the blogosphere and I did not write "Web log" as a demonstration of further mainstream media misunderstanding of what blogs are.

That said, I hope you liked my story on hoax blogs. And I invite you to stay tuned to my work in the future, both in Wired News, the Times and in any other venues - including this one - in which my writing appears in print.

Thanks a lot,
Daniel Terdiman