Anyone can do it. You simply create a blog and post your thoughts for the world to read. It’s a piece of cake . . . unless you’re over thirty and don’t know anything about widgets, Flickr, Feedburner, technorati, pings, permalink, trackbacks, blogrolls, and html. Otherwise, you’re good to go.
Bloggers are the new columnistas (ka-lum-NEE-stuhs) of the world. They are like the new journalists, hunting down stories with their trusty Nokia camera phones. We columnistas are the new wave of publishing, bypassing the newspaper industry in the same way print-on-demand is doing an end run around the publishing giants.
Blogging runs the gamut, from columns by established news divisions and technocrats to Sue’s Potpourri and Aunt Sally’s Knitting Tips. If you want something, a blogger somewhere on this big blue marble has it.
If PCs and blogging had been around in the 1960s, the Berlin Wall would have crumbled and the Soviet Union would have gone belly-up right then and there. What could the KGB have done about Vladimir Vidanya’s Girls Gone Cuckoo Blog in St. Petersburg? Or Petruska Ratinov’s Fresh Muffin Blog in Moscow? The U.S.S.R.’s internal spy network would have been overwhelmed.
My neighbor, Mabel Mae Greene, is an elderly African-American who invites me over for dinner once a week. At the age of sixty-six, Mabel got her first computer last year. She decided to go online last week to get a recipe for a blogroll, which she thought she’d bake for Thanksgiving. After thirty minutes, Mabel hit the monitor with her black vinyl purse, a formidable weapon, and then sat down on her couch with a shot of Jack Daniels. There are people who still don’t want anything to do with technology. I find them rather refreshing. Rejection of the keyboard and monitor is also a form of free expression.
(Picture: Public Domain)
Bloggers are the new columnistas (ka-lum-NEE-stuhs) of the world. They are like the new journalists, hunting down stories with their trusty Nokia camera phones. We columnistas are the new wave of publishing, bypassing the newspaper industry in the same way print-on-demand is doing an end run around the publishing giants.
Blogging runs the gamut, from columns by established news divisions and technocrats to Sue’s Potpourri and Aunt Sally’s Knitting Tips. If you want something, a blogger somewhere on this big blue marble has it.
If PCs and blogging had been around in the 1960s, the Berlin Wall would have crumbled and the Soviet Union would have gone belly-up right then and there. What could the KGB have done about Vladimir Vidanya’s Girls Gone Cuckoo Blog in St. Petersburg? Or Petruska Ratinov’s Fresh Muffin Blog in Moscow? The U.S.S.R.’s internal spy network would have been overwhelmed.
My neighbor, Mabel Mae Greene, is an elderly African-American who invites me over for dinner once a week. At the age of sixty-six, Mabel got her first computer last year. She decided to go online last week to get a recipe for a blogroll, which she thought she’d bake for Thanksgiving. After thirty minutes, Mabel hit the monitor with her black vinyl purse, a formidable weapon, and then sat down on her couch with a shot of Jack Daniels. There are people who still don’t want anything to do with technology. I find them rather refreshing. Rejection of the keyboard and monitor is also a form of free expression.
(Picture: Public Domain)
1 comments:
The thing that amuses me, is that bloggers like to dig up old clips of people in the news and marry them to new clips...
Under such intense light, politicians- especially- are going to have to try and remember what they said last week...
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