Sunday, December 03, 2006
Blogging the Observer
The problems that the dead tree press have with bloggers are more than amply illustrated by this diatribe by columnist Jasper Gerard in today's Observer:
Vodcasts and blogs are to the noughties what graffiti was to the Seventies: mindless scrawls reading: 'I woz ere.' It says: 'I'm a moron, but worship me anyway.'
MySpace should refer to the large vacant area of green belt between the ears. We are bogged down in blogland.
I am told Labour has held a meeting to discuss the 'blog phenomena' and will set up 'regional blogs'. Can't wait.
Bloggers are the codgers who used to write letters in green ink banging on about speed humps or Judao-Freemason conspiracies. They probably include gifted amateurs whose vodding and blogging will earn them a proper job.
As for the rest, well, everyone has a right to write; but a right to be heard still has to be earned.
It is a very two-dimensional view. Still, the appearance of Labour Regional blogs will be well worth waiting for. They had to find a way to assert control. Labour may find that this is one beast that is beyond taming.
Vodcasts and blogs are to the noughties what graffiti was to the Seventies: mindless scrawls reading: 'I woz ere.' It says: 'I'm a moron, but worship me anyway.'
MySpace should refer to the large vacant area of green belt between the ears. We are bogged down in blogland.
I am told Labour has held a meeting to discuss the 'blog phenomena' and will set up 'regional blogs'. Can't wait.
Bloggers are the codgers who used to write letters in green ink banging on about speed humps or Judao-Freemason conspiracies. They probably include gifted amateurs whose vodding and blogging will earn them a proper job.
As for the rest, well, everyone has a right to write; but a right to be heard still has to be earned.
It is a very two-dimensional view. Still, the appearance of Labour Regional blogs will be well worth waiting for. They had to find a way to assert control. Labour may find that this is one beast that is beyond taming.
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Will there be a Labour imposed heirarchy? Whereby regional blogs are given less credence than constituency blogs?
That would be the same Observer that backed the invasion of Iraq?
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