THE TRIP TO NYC WAS FINE: Nice, smooth nonstop flight. Got into Newark before 8:30, was in Manhattan by 9. The taping for PBS’s “Media Matters” program on weblogs went well. When the producer originally called, I told him that I thought the story idea was great, but that they were going to have a hard time making it visually interesting.

This is why they’re TV pros and I’m not. The taping was a far cry from Larry King Live: in fact, it’s probably as close as I’ll get to making a rock video unless my music hobby really takes off. They had fog machines, various bizarre lighting effects, front- and back-projection setups, and a bunch of stuff that, had it been describe do me, would have seemed dumb but that actually looked pretty good when I saw it on the monitors. We’ll see how the program turns out, but I was impressed with what I saw.

Oliver Willis was there, too. I missed Anil Dash, who was there the day before, and Megan McArdle, who got there after a I left to catch my flight home.

Alas, I might as well have stayed. My flight home, along with a lot of other flights, was cancelled because of weather and I wound up spending the night at the Newark Airport Mariott. Not bad at all, as airport hotels go, but not where I would have chosen to spend the night. Got back this morning about ten.

I could have blogged from the Mariott’s “business center,” but at some outrageous per-minute rate. They had high-speed connections in the rooms, but I didn’t take the laptop, since I didn’t expect to have any free time anyway. Oh, well.

More later. Here’s the Media Matters homepage, though they don’t have anything about the show up there yet. They’re promising quicktime video clips soon; the show itself will run in January.