Robot journalists are making technological advances, at least in the world of sports writing, which probably doesn’t bode well for my career as a blogger. While I’d like to think there’s a specific human touch to posting photos of otters hugging or wistful recollections of soon-deceased soap operas, but sooner or later, they’ll figure out a way to digitize that too. Oh well. I should enjoy the work while it lasts.
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.
