Guido van Rossum's Weblog opened with insight into PyCon, and followed with (you guessed it!) comments from readers regarding....drumroll please.....indentation blather! The blog is much appreciated, especially the difference in tone the weblog medium evokes rather than focused audience+issue mailing list postings.
At first I was disappointed that this group personalities weblog wasn't in a python venue such as www.python.org, www.zopezen.org, or even www.PyCS.net, but after further thought (10 minutes) am glad to have a high profile (the highest?) Python advocate among the big names now posting at www.Artima.com.
I'm looking forward to these weblogs. I'm not sure how to say the following with the proper tact, but I find Bill Venners long and recent list of O'Reilly Network weblogs pointing to Artima a bit self serving. +1 for the big-name weblogs announcement coming from William Grosso, not Bill. See "Artima has evolved.", and Bruce Eckel's (new) blog adding further insight and rational for his opting out of Artima.(3-22-03)
I'll end on this note: 2 years ago I was very frustrated being stuck in the middle of Wisconsin with very little access to software issues, insight, project management, conversation and stories outside my company. Python and it's community met the first part with an unexpected renewed joy of (or hope in?) coding, and weblogs have completed the picture. Artima and O'ReillyNet's weblogs are much welcomed and appreciated.
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