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Linton Weeks was born, and grew up, in Memphis, Tenn. For high school graduation he received the obligatory pawn-shop guitar. He graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, 1976, with a major in English and a minor in table shuffleboard.
Linton was the founding editor of Southern Magazine in Little Rock, Ark., 1986. The magazine (circ. 240,000) was bought and mercilessly crushed in 1989. In 1990 he became managing editor of The Washington Post Magazine and in 1994 became the first director of The Washington Post's online service. He has been a reporter in the Style Section since September 1995.
The Navigator – Live
The Navigator's Purpose (From the First Column) Starting with this week's column, as your navigator, that's my job. Like my ancestors who were bar pilots on the Mississippi River, I'll try to steer you past the sawyers and sandbars in cyberspace. Together we'll venture forward and explore the electronic frontier. With this space as our agreed-upon meeting place, we'll sail the cyberseas. Where are we going? Through the ever-changing, ever-stranger digital world. What are we looking for? The Holy Grail. The lost chord. The killer app. Will we find it? Who do you think I am? Dionne Warwick? How should I know? But we'll have some fun, a few yuks if we're lucky. We'll see the sites and untangle the Web and maybe it won't seem like such a weird place after all. Along the way, we might as well look for the meaning of it all and try to figure out what life online tells us about life offline. As my editor reminds me ad nauseum, 'It's the humans, stupid.' Because love it or loathe it, cyberculture is moving through real life like the smell of cedar. None of us is untouched."
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