Hunter S. Thompson would have made a fine blogger, or so I was saying when Peter Svarre mentioned HST in passing. Besides from artfully-spontaneous literary reportage, HST readily published parts of his apparently many, many personal letters and served as an online sports columnist -- so why not a blogger too.
Well, Norman Mailer who is a canonized new journalist from the same generation and who hasn't been shy to put books like "Advertisements for Myself" in print, has in fact tried his luck as a guest blogger a year ago at Huffington Post. As far as I can tell, he wrote two posts in two months - and got lots of response (it's been closed down for comments now).
Like I was saying in a comment below, it may be that to print personalities like Mailer there's not enough to be achieved by getting personal in the blogosphere. It's not a spectacular gesture in itself, so you don't really feel anything...
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