He was a blogger (Just Bru)

He was a blogger0

Posted by Bru August 27, 2004 9:41 PM

I must admit that I had no idea who Enzo Baldoni was, not until a few days ago, not until the news of his kidnapping in Iraq echoed through the blogosphere to me.
It's strange to know new things from blogs:
on one side, they seem as coming through layers of cottons, they come somewhat filtered... but when you try to understand what this "filter" is, you see that it's just the lack of the kind of amplification from the mass media we are used to, and that with just a few clicks you can actually access and open up a true hurricane of details, points of view, gossip and anecdotes about it.
That's one of the features of blogs. Bad? Good? Sincerely I don't know, and it won't be today the day to judge that.
What I know now is that Enzo Baldoni was Italian, was a journalist, a pacifist, that was kidnapped on August 19th and executed a few hours ago.

...and that he was a blogger too.

E.G.B.
Enzo Baldoni è fondamentalmente un Grande Pigro. Viaggia per caso, quando proprio non può farne a meno, sull'onda delle coincidenze. [...]
Un giorno, senza saper bene perchè, parte per Baghdad...

Rivoluzionari a parte, Enzo Baldoni fa il copywriter e il critico di fumetti, è il traduttore italiano di Doonesbury, di Lauzier e di Miller, ha scritto di fumetti e di guerriglieri, di lebbrosi e di personaggi strani in generale su Linus, Diario, Specchio della stampa, Venerdì di Repubblica e altri periodici. E' tutto a
www.balene.it/enzo.

Knowing a man from his blog is not so strange as getting in touch with a news from a blog.
After all, I'm used to read books and diaries of all kind.
So now, after having read most of his posts, I can also appreciate the lighthearted, smart and witty language and the excellent choice of images that made up his "style".
What I was not prepared to was that strange feeling, like having something in common, being part of a same tribe... part of course is because he was Italian but, in part, I think I feel like a fellow journalist could feel. Same tribes, as I said... he was a blogger too.