Garrison Keillor writing as <A HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/garrison_keillor/index.html">Mr. Blue</A>.

<A HREF="http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/garrison_keillor/index.html">Mr. Blue</A>

Salon.com's <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/2001/05/30/bad_behavior/index.html">Mr. Blue</a>

Garrison Keillor as <A HREF="http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/2001/06/05/born_again/index.html">Mr. Blue</A> on Salon.com

back of my head for a long while, from his (non-Mr. Blue) book "We Are Still Married":<br>

Garrison Keillor, writing as Mr. Blue on Salon.

Mr. Blue

Interesting to note the similarities between this passage and <a href="/2017/05/12/">this bit from Garrison Keillor's "Mr. Blue" column</a>.

I was thinking about the allure of Facebook. Previously I attribute it's dominance to a combination of "stream/wall" (ala Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram) with real identities, a strong bias to guide you to connect with people you know in real life vs anonymous internet strangers. But there's something else: the "also commented on X's post" notification. I just now posted a second comment on friend's post on feeling blue and the seemingly masochistic desire to watch or listen to sad stuff there, two passages relevant to the topic (<a href="http://kirk.is/2004/05/09/">this passage</a> and the Mr. Blue thing it links to) and it feels great that I know people interested in that topic will get a nudge and probably see what I put there. Old school web forums have this feature but they don't have the stream that brings content front and center, or the "real world friend" aspect. (Heh, I remember when I would read Usenet on an old academic account, I had a perl script that would scrape and find me continuations of threads I had participated in.)

Garrison Keillor, writing as Mr. Blue on Salon.

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