Numbers and Egos

Friday, January 14, 2005, at 07:21AM

By Eric Richardson

I've mentioned before that Bob Hertzberg's campaign site -- http://changela.com -- is doing a very cool thing with their Daily Digests, a roundup of the day's LA news from both traditional and blog sources. Brian, the Hertzberg staffer who collects the info for those posts, has linked to my site many times now, and I think that's great.

But sometimes you have to wonder, how much is too much? Right now there are five entries on the first page that have to do with me: a link to Sean's blogging.la post talking about blogdowntown, links to parts one and two of my Art Walk coverage at blogdowntown, a link to my post here introducing blogdowntown, and farther up a link to my bit yesterday on the sales-tax debate. If you consider that there are 50 entries on their home page, that means that I am 10% of what's going on in LA today. Even in my deluded fantasies I don't occupy that large a position in LA.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

2005
Bike Show 2005
I went to the Bike Show yesterday, worried that the hour and a half or so I had until it closed might not be enough time. Well... It was, and then some...
The Immortal Class
A couple weeks ago Alan told me to check out Travis Hugh Culley's book The Immortal Class. It took me a while to get through, but yesterday during...
2001
Game 2: North Muskegon 5, Shelby 5
We started out by giving them four runs that probably shouldn't have been scored (I'm not sure how many were actually unearned), and then had to...
Game 1: North Muskegon 9, Shelby 4
We jumped out to an early lead, but couldn't quite finish the job without going the full seven innings. I did nothing spectacular, going 1-4 as a...
2000
autowrap
I have to say that after seeing this article about autowraps, I actually thought about signing up.
1999
the dark side...
now i really feel like i've given into the dark side... I just installed Windows 95. Granted, it was only onto a virtual drive to work inside vmware...