NYT’s David Carr fires up Oscars blog

For those of you who can’t get enough David Carr, the New York Times media reporter now has his own short-term blog, The Carpetbagger, focusing on the ins and outs of Oscar season. Carr began the blog this morning and, let’s see, posted items at 4:02 a.m., 4:06 a.m., 4:07 a.m. and 4:18 a.m. We hope his computer clock is messed up. “The Carpetbagger is aware that people tend to ignore the preliminaries that accompany any new column/blog/curio, so I’ll keep this short,” Carr writes in the opening post.