Scripting News: Sunday, December 31, 2023
  			   				 Sunday, December 31, 2023   Andrew Hickey  is this year's Blogger of the Year . He's a prototypical blogger, exactly the kind of person I hoped would create  their own media having profound positive impact on people's lives. People like me. His 500 Songs  podcast, which I've written about many times , focuses on a song in every episode and tells you how the pieces came together to create it. When a new episode comes out I greedily savor it, like a great bagel  from Zabar's or a new Tarantino  movie. Two recent episodes, one about the Grateful Dead  and the other about Hey Jude , changed my views of each of the groups, in the first case confirming an intuition, and in the other showing me how naive my idea of how a song comes together. I am envious of how the musicians work together, it may be a cuthroat industry, but it seems incredibly collaborative compared to how tech works, where we all pretty much ignore each other. Hickey isn't just a podcaste...