I really understand about having too much to do and no time to do it.
I read your other post about full disclosure and now have a concern
that you might get job whacked for blogging. It has
happened. It is
not just MSM I have distrust for but what companies are currently
doing to employees that express themselves via blogging.
*Podcasting has cut into bottom lines and ...it is still
young/increasingly bad financial situation.*
No they kind of did it to themselves by marketing their product to 13
to 39 year old boys or cheap reality programming. They listened to the
bean counters and advertisers who told them to target and slice up the
demographics.
* Hatred of carpetbaggers*
What the carpetbaggers did was take advantage of the devastation of
the civil war by buying property and businesses on pennies on the
dollar. Now maybe it had to occur but it was not pleasant by any means
to see what was built and then marketed sold by the other.
My contemporary appropriation of the concept is that MSM sees that
there is this new thing podcasting. It could be like the
Internet or it could be like CB Radio. CBS mulls it over, does
research, talks to the young folks inside of the company, consults
with marketing, have more meetings and this is what they come up
with.
A contest.
*Most people accept illusion as fact.*
Yep. That explains the past five years in America.
*A media blitz campaign could help change that.*
The blitz would be how CBS/MSM defines the term. I ain't crazy
about how they currently define text blogging let alone podcasting (I
wish it was called audio blogging) As Charles HOPE pointed out there
is a difference between the distribution method and the content of the
audio blogging.
MSM (not just CBS) have given the impression that video blogging is
just a bunch of people who are gazing at their navels. That there is
no substance, don't worry about it-stick with TV.
Now certainly we collectively need to do a better job of helping
non-bloggers find content. Most folks just use Google and land on the
first couple of hits. Or it is by word of mouth. I don't want to
depend on the other to define me or my work.
**
All based on previous judgments and not based, it seemed, on
any facts. It was opinion. Negative opinion.*
Yo, David, that what an opinion is, my feelings based on the facts
that I was presented plus my experience. Sometimes it is negative. Oh
well.
There is a problem in transmitting sarcasm via the typed word. But if
what I said discourage anyone from doing this that would be regretful
but dumb on his or her part. Okay, not dumb, eh
an ill-advised
action. Yeah, yeah that what I meant to say. This is a place of
_expression_ and you don't have to agree with anything I or anyone
else said.
As much as I will not do it there should be others that do sign on to
tells us what the process is like or that if they feel they want a
shot at the brass ring. All options in play.
*Quickly gain a monster-sized audience*
That's just it do we need a monster size audience? Do we
have to or want a million, 10 million people?
(Hold on some of you cuz I know the answer is yes, oh god yes and
expletive yeah!) If you are true to your work and craft, you do good
work and have 10,000 contented subscribers isn't that satisfaction
enough?
And anyway who will host the podcast? Will there be a link to their
original site or blog. Who owns the content? What are the terms of
use? I'd want to read the 2-point type before I send my stuff.
*I cited NECN.com*
I'll take a look at it. I don't know about it.
*I just do not understand smart people with knee-jerk reactions.*
What if it is a form of PTSD? I see something that is potentially
harmful. That has harmed me in the past. The initial response is to go
into defense mode. There are times when I feel assaulted by MSM or
traditional news.
A silly example. If you watch MSM there are more blondes here than in
Sweden. They are pack enhanced ta-ta's, limited waistlines, and
an IQ that can be measured in fractions.
There is such a rich diversity of women in this or any country. We are
round and have curves. Some of us pack meat or we are just fat. We are
not imitation of men's desires. We are full functioning women.
Many of us are over 30.
Some of us are blond and can string a sentence together without the
help of a publicist. Most of us are not blond, will not have breast
enhancement and we are loved by dang good men. Or women. Or have a box
of toys under the bed until the right person comes along. I
digress.
There is almost no reflection of that in MSM. There is no
perceived
profit in doing so. This is one of the reasons video
blogging is important. Representation. Creativity. Diversity of hair
color!
And don't worry about having to do keep this going. Others will
jump in and take it around the block.
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