THIS AMERICAN LAWYER profile of yours truly is pretty good. But — and this isn’t the fault of Jeffery Knight, who wrote it — it also shows how journalistic conventions can give the wrong impression.

The piece says that I’m “blogger royalty.” That’s an obvious takeoff from the term “rock royalty,” but, um, there are differences. My youngest brother, who is only a part of the rock minor nobility (his band, Copper, just opened for Blues Traveler in D.C.) gets rather a lot more perks than I do. Heck, he even makes more money at it.

Nobody surpasses me in thinking that weblogs are cool, but they’re a pretty small part of the world, all things considered. When bloggers can turn out thousands of screaming fans in a strange town, well, that’ll be . . . . never, probably.