---
title: 'William Gibson...'
date: '2003-05-06T21:29:02-04:00'
permalink: /william-gibson/
tags:
    - blogging
    - writing
---

…[no longer](http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58607,00.html "Wired") has a blog. Or won’t soon, anyhow. Claiming concerns that, as he puts it, “the ecology of writing novels wouldn’t be able to exist if I’m in daily contact,” he’s planning to discontinue the [blog](http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp) he started earlier in the year to coincide with the release of [Pattern Recognition](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0399149864).

This move begs the question: are blogging and traditional writing really incompatible? Can one reside only in the novel or in the network?