This is the blog after Christmas and all through the land
not a pay cheque is rustling
nor a till going Ka ching.
What is it that has caused this terrible thing?
In a nutshell bru: trustbust
A credit crunch that persists for over a year and shows no significant sign of ending is
a prime indicator. Who ever heard of an institutional memory that lasted longer than about seven seconds? … That it has lasted so long as a year is a sign that the core signifier Trust is mortally wounded.
The financial industry is not noted for integrity.
Perhaps bankers were once noted for integrity but that was in the days when they controlled money
Today any business with a huge and consistent cash flow is also a banker and the rules have become blurred.
Then bankers had the bright idea that if supermarkets could become bankers then why shouldn’t bankers become supermarkets where they market money as a product…. and the rest is history.
John Ralston Saul argues that the core of our modern crisis is that the world of finance, money and the products they grease on their way has become managerialised: if I may coin a word.
Managers manage problems they don’t solve them.
If he is right then settle down for a prolonged recession [He says that today’s “managerial” class [of both politicians and business leaders] refuse to acknowledge that the world is in an economic DEPRESSION because it implies something that cannot be “managed” but rather has top be “solved”.
For myself I shall ignore it all and hope it goes away by the time I die eventually of serious old age in about a century or so.
Trust is the basic cornerstone of a thriving society. Capitalism is founded on two core human vices: Self interest and greed. The people who hold the money are not supposed to be motivated by these vices. For them self interest requires absolute integrity. Is this possible in a freebooting market economy in which the bankers are also product merchants and their business model requires a diet of mergers and acquisitions that have now outpaced the market’s natural ability to generate businesses that are available to acquire, or with which to merge.
The downside is that these behemoth businesses have faltering models. They cannot get the finance from the places that traditionally supply credit and it may be too late for many by the time a modicum of trust re emerges.
Ho hum
***********************************************
The poet ruminates on an endemic
cycle of poverty
Buying Christmas presents
And
The rule
Of
BuyaChristmas
Presentorbedammed
applied
And dammed I
Was.
Save all year ‘till
Come December
Granny grandpa mom n dad
Little brother, cousins: bad
Aunty’s gone
All money’s gone, squandered
And spent in
Lieue
Of Santa:
Out dammed cash
'till we have none.
!Nik[08]
Now here’s a word from my sponsor [me]
The following piece is extracted from my forthcoming novel The Jonker Memorandum. Toward the end of the first quarter I shall begin the readings of my new novel on You Tube: address to be advised.
I believe that I have more chance in today’s climate of getting listeners to my book rather than readers. Hopefully my listeners will also become readers thereby justifying my faith in the universe/multiverse.
A Superfluity of rights.
The human being may be described as the
lowest form of life on earth.
Since it [human being] is the most recent form to evolve.
It is therefore the one most likely to be capable
of further mutation [one step two step];
to become as much as it can be, through
application of mind - Or
it can choose to discard the mind as many do
in pursuit of the transient instant as
was done in their turn by all
the other living entities on the planet.
What if we are here
to consume the planet
and in some way through our
growth
and development
we achieve a critical mass that will spark off
The next phase in our
Evolution… our revelation of transformation: the moment of our fabled
Rapture
Shall we ask then… come back later please?
Professor Oram Mangosti !0th Freedom lecture 2130 AD.
From the Jonker Memeorandum
By !NiK[08]
Friday, December 26, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Obama and Hobson's choice
Emotion aside and notwithstanding the vast debts that he will inherit Mr Barak Obama has only two choices. He has to spend more money he doesn't have to solve a problem he did not create OR ....
Oh gosh is there another choice?
Oh yes he can raise taxes to pay for the cost of the big repair job he has to pull on the USA, if the place is to have a prosperous future... The US market economy is, in many key areas too Oligopolistic for its own good and it needs to get back to the core principles.
And Gosh again, that will take us back to where we have been... If you burn your hand once putting it on the hot stove [and we have probably put our hands on the stove often] should we demonstrate stupidity by doing it again/
However we need taxes, and Mr Obama a tech savvy man one understands has got a lever no national leader in the so - called free world has ever had before ... HE HAS HIS FOOT ON THE THROAT OF THE FINANCIAL SPECULATOR PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE COLLECTION OF WOEFUL MISBEGOTTEN THIEVING MISFIT BANKERS LIKE NO LEADER HAS HAD IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
This means that he can do something no political leader has ever been really able to do ... dip directly in the fast flowing financial stream.
By tapping into the national payments system with a democratatically controlled micro levy on all financial transactions BO is in a position to effect a revolution in taxation theory on a par with discovering theat the world was not flat.
A micro levy on payments through the system places the burden of tax on all who use the system according to the size of the transaction. This relaeses money at the present end; where its existance is a haemorrage scale wound on upwardly mobile aspirants. How can the state take taxes from a person [citizen] and then allow the money that could have saved the mortgage not be used to help that person out... [sic] on enterprise?
Mr Obama can do what others have done: vast socialist type public works exercises have been successful in the past and will undoubtedly be so again... especally since the advent of the [un] free [oligopoly prone] mass marketing era has seen financial rape of the people become de rigeur [sic].
Logic suggests that the switch of core taxation from an "earner pays" to a "user pays" format would be more efficient than the present system and would involve less conflict wityh the presently overburdened taxpayer and would therefopre facilitate a faster turnaround in the coming New Depression... the word that no one dares to name..
We have recently learned that the USA has been in recession for a year now and shows no immediate signs of remediation... How many months do the facile "coupon clipping" managers of our managerial capitalist bureacratic "sclerotic" global economic system have to let pass by, before they realise that this probnlem needs a permanent solution... These solutions that have us prey to the booms and busts caused by predatory hordes of gloriously well fed and nourished piranha class financial speculators must come to an end, now that we have entered the era of elecronic funds transfers.
Unless you think it is all going to end in a year or two in the "end of days" event long heralded, by the irrationalist class, with its magisterial final cataclism... In which case then lets us by all means follow the same path as that which has stood us well for a few thousand years.
Oh gosh is there another choice?
Oh yes he can raise taxes to pay for the cost of the big repair job he has to pull on the USA, if the place is to have a prosperous future... The US market economy is, in many key areas too Oligopolistic for its own good and it needs to get back to the core principles.
And Gosh again, that will take us back to where we have been... If you burn your hand once putting it on the hot stove [and we have probably put our hands on the stove often] should we demonstrate stupidity by doing it again/
However we need taxes, and Mr Obama a tech savvy man one understands has got a lever no national leader in the so - called free world has ever had before ... HE HAS HIS FOOT ON THE THROAT OF THE FINANCIAL SPECULATOR PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE COLLECTION OF WOEFUL MISBEGOTTEN THIEVING MISFIT BANKERS LIKE NO LEADER HAS HAD IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
This means that he can do something no political leader has ever been really able to do ... dip directly in the fast flowing financial stream.
By tapping into the national payments system with a democratatically controlled micro levy on all financial transactions BO is in a position to effect a revolution in taxation theory on a par with discovering theat the world was not flat.
A micro levy on payments through the system places the burden of tax on all who use the system according to the size of the transaction. This relaeses money at the present end; where its existance is a haemorrage scale wound on upwardly mobile aspirants. How can the state take taxes from a person [citizen] and then allow the money that could have saved the mortgage not be used to help that person out... [sic] on enterprise?
Mr Obama can do what others have done: vast socialist type public works exercises have been successful in the past and will undoubtedly be so again... especally since the advent of the [un] free [oligopoly prone] mass marketing era has seen financial rape of the people become de rigeur [sic].
Logic suggests that the switch of core taxation from an "earner pays" to a "user pays" format would be more efficient than the present system and would involve less conflict wityh the presently overburdened taxpayer and would therefopre facilitate a faster turnaround in the coming New Depression... the word that no one dares to name..
We have recently learned that the USA has been in recession for a year now and shows no immediate signs of remediation... How many months do the facile "coupon clipping" managers of our managerial capitalist bureacratic "sclerotic" global economic system have to let pass by, before they realise that this probnlem needs a permanent solution... These solutions that have us prey to the booms and busts caused by predatory hordes of gloriously well fed and nourished piranha class financial speculators must come to an end, now that we have entered the era of elecronic funds transfers.
Unless you think it is all going to end in a year or two in the "end of days" event long heralded, by the irrationalist class, with its magisterial final cataclism... In which case then lets us by all means follow the same path as that which has stood us well for a few thousand years.
I posted the following pi9ece on my archive blog: nik.amagama.com last year in April and suddenly in the past few weeks i have received more than 4000 pieces of highly targeted [ito source and nature of sender] spam mail off the site. No response to requests has prevailed so i am goimng to amputate the piece from my old now redundant blog and i'm moving it here so i remember what brought the biggest heap of spam to break through all the filters.
“To the average joe…blogs aren’t cutting it”…M&G a comment
April 17th, 2007 by nik
A story running on M & G online [to the average joe blogs aren't cutting it April 14] suggests that the blogging phenomenon has perhaps peaked. According to the writer [quoting the agency Technorati]the total number of bloggists in English has remained static at around 24 million bloggers, many of whom are probably duplicate bloggers like myself. The writer also comments [sourly]on the limited number of journalism students who routinely blog and states that it [the writer] has tired of asked for a ‘hands up’ from classes, regarding ‘who blogs?’, because the response is so piss poor. The writer concludes that blogging is a minority occupation. Coincidentally I have also noted that I have encountered very few ‘hands ups’ from anybody who even knows what blogging is, in my own routine probing of the subject over the past few years.
Curiously by contrast ‘click online’ the BBC’s weekly analysis of Internet affairs, headlines, this week, the way that bloggers successfully thwart all Internet attempts at censorship. So while blogging may be a minority activity it is certainly an influential one, influential enough that the mainstream media are desperately appropriating the concept in an attempt to smother its effectiveness..
What is of interest to me however is the idea that the number of bloggists has peaked at around 24 million [English speakers] The writer does refer to another 50 million or so bloggers who write in other languages: these are not of concern to me in this blog. I would be inclined to agree with the M&G writer that blogging could actually be in decline, once one accepts that huge numbers of bloggers are not regular bloggers nor are all bloggers separate individuals, but like myself may well blog under many separate names in different places.
It seems to me though that there could be various reasons why blogging appears to have peaked [or may have peaked] in the English-speaking world: declining levels of literacy, the appropriation of blogging by the mainstream corporatocracy, the loneliness of the random bloggist and the sheer lack of any serious recognition, point, purpose or reward for what is after all a certain amount of intellectual effort.
It is possible that 20 odd million is about the limit of effective literacy in the English speaking world: a world that appears to have been typified by rising levels of Alliteracy over the past couple of decades. Reader surveys seem to have been routinely noting the decline in reading behaviour over the past decades by those beneficiaries of a modern education system. Apparently the US booksellers association reported recently that the number of Americans who admit to reading a novel in 2005 had declined to below 50% for the first time after hovering around the 50% mark for a number of years. Television viewing is the single biggest ‘participatory’ activity in the modern world.
In another report it seems that the 300 million Americans who populate that country only manage to consume 15 million daily newspapers now which is far less that a century ago when there were much fewer people. In South Africa, where this blogger lives, the biggest selling newspaper manages about 250,000 copies a day and one would be hard pressed to call the Daily Sun reading matter, notwithstanding that is a master of the pithy headline. Neither the most serious daily newspaper: Business Day, nor weekly newspaper, The Mail and Guardian can claim much more than 30,000 copies sold each; and even with a modest three readers per copy [a doubtful speculation] 90,000 readers out of a population of some 45 million is readership at its most elitist. The evidence throughout the English speaking world for the decline in reading activity is widely documented and has been happening for some decades now. I have myself written on the subject as far back as 1976.
As an aside comment… Yesterday I stood in a ’round- the-block’ queue for an hour and a half waiting for the licence office in Loveday street [Jozi} to open [ it never did]. I passed the time reading a novel by Carl Hiaasen [Skin Tight, for those who are interested].
Various people around me commented on my strange activity- they simply stood, passively waiting. An old man who was moving up and down the two hundred-metre line of people [selling document folders] told me I was the only person dumb enough to be reading when everyone else was watching out for pickpockets. I did however notice a few people [two] reading one or other of the daily newspapers. The man in front of me was puzzled when I laughed at something I had read, and commented gratuitously, even smugly, accompanied with serious halitosis, that he had never read a thing since he finished school. Other chaps around him agreed that reading was an unhealthy activity- ‘Bad for the eyes’ one said, to general agreement. So much for 25% of the national budget going to educate people in how to stop reading.
When one contrasts all this above evidence with the truism that the most popular activity on the Internet is [apparently] gawping at dirty pictures on a proliferation of porn sites; with the next most common activity being the deletion of spam emails from one’s email account then it is unsurprising that blogging would be an extreme minority activity.
Notwithstanding this, blogging has proved to be a potent force for prising apart the insidious grip of the mainstream media’s ‘gate-keeping’ function. Bloggers tell that part of the world that cares, about the other ways in which the news may be interpreted, whether real, quirky, fictional, self indulgent or fiercely accurate.
For this reason the Mainstream media are striking back and blogging has been appropriated by almost all worthy media as a way of reinforcing corporate messages using the blind credibility that blogging has acquired. In effect the corporate response to the Blog phenomena has been to attach Blogging to the Public Relations function that so powerfully attempts to mould opinion to conform to corporate needs and wants. In this way ‘authoritive’ voices can be given media supported space to crowd out the more ‘hysterical’ messages of the independent blogger.
Which gives us the third element that must inevitably crowd out the independent voice: The loneliness of the long distance Internet. Anyone who has attempted to present a message on the World Wide Web knows that the experience is similar, in a way, to what would happen if one farted on the centre line of a crowded football stadium. Perhaps a few people nearby might get the message about the state of one’s bowels but the vast mass of the gathered crowd would remain oblivious.
I routinely use the Internet, and specifically Google, for teaching purposes with my classes at the high school where I facilitate the learning of business practice. For instance I may start with a fun statement like ‘business games’: a request to Google that will pull 300 million pages of choices. Given that each page contains 10 entries that is THREE BILLION choices available at the press of a button. We keep refining the question until we find a game, for instance, that is appropriate to what we are studying. Even then our choices run to the thousands.
The random bloggist is lost with such choice. The core problem of the Internet has always been ‘How does one target the untargetable’. To date the best solution is Google and that is hardly a solution.
So inevitably the random bloggist who forms a part of that amorphous 20 million odd bloggers allegedly out there stating their purpose will operate without pay in an environment where they will be lucky if they can attract a few hundred readers. And these readers are so spoilt for choice that they will soon move on in search of greater novelty.
At best blogging is a self-indulgent activity that seeks no reward other than the knowledge that like Kilroy ‘they were there’ and have some small measure of fame in an elusive fame-free world and this must be the ultimate minority activity. Why spend time writing something that almost no one will ever read or even care about.
And as for journalism students blogging on the web, I also suspect that blogging could only be a ancillary activity for such journalism students who choose to operate without editorial control; which is hardly something a good journalism school would teach would they?
The essence of blogging is founded in taking the initiative to say what one wants to say without any form of interference from anyone at all- These are my undiluted, unmediated words, and fuck you if you don’t like what I say. There are no advertisers to offend, no vested interests to protect, and no subtextural hidden agendas to covertly promote. The very idea that journalism students should be practiced Bloggers is almost a complete contradiction of their terms of [future] employment. Too much independence would compromise their employment potential as ‘Hacks’ to the corporatocracy. Aah but then I am ignoring the fact aren’t I that the corporate blogs That have appropriated our invention are probably as carefully edited and proofread as any piece of writing that goes in a piece of mainstream media. If a blog has a corporate logo it can be sued.
Ultimately when one thinks about the problem of figuring out how to say something coherent enough to be read by a third party without an editorial intermediary; and then being able to do this consistently, for no financial reward, to an ultimately indifferent, jaded, communication saturated, marginally committed reader, with an eight word attention span, then we know that what is really surprising is that there are as many as 24 million of us at all.
Viva Bloggers.
Category : Uncategorized
3 Responses to ““To the average joe…blogs aren’t cutting it”…M&G a comment”
kchasu, on April 17th, 2007 at 11:19 am Said:
I was talking to a seasoned PR person the other day. He is terribly out of touch with any actual work, or the Internet for that matter.
Nevertheless he is telling his clients that his agency will set up blogs for them.
I was pissed off. Who the hell are they kidding? Would any of us on here read anything that was blatantly advertising of one sort or another?
No.
And PR is my business. But blogs or chatrooms are no place for it. i used to think they might be. but they are not. the small population that is literate enough to produce online, is not going to be influenced by that kind of crap. therefore, for me, this blog is the last outpost of civilisation.
i see Duncan Mcleod has started a blog. it’s press releases!!!! i know this, because we send him some. and there is a big fuss made because this journo “launches a blog”. crap.
utter shite.
corporates are the politicians of this century in terms of propaganda. it’s fine. but they don’t understand the Internet. they just see a medium and can’t believe they can’t use it.
i immediately steer clients away from “corporate blogging”. it will be a monstrous mess. they would be flamed. it’s harmful.
brandon96end, on April 18th, 2007 at 6:47 am Said:
Unless you have a cpative audience and a really articulate person handling the blog, it can just become a mess… even then, a blog is not the place to advertise. Unless, of course, you can back everything up… all the time.
Данил, on December 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 am Said:
Very useful and informative text !
“To the average joe…blogs aren’t cutting it”…M&G a comment
April 17th, 2007 by nik
A story running on M & G online [to the average joe blogs aren't cutting it April 14] suggests that the blogging phenomenon has perhaps peaked. According to the writer [quoting the agency Technorati]the total number of bloggists in English has remained static at around 24 million bloggers, many of whom are probably duplicate bloggers like myself. The writer also comments [sourly]on the limited number of journalism students who routinely blog and states that it [the writer] has tired of asked for a ‘hands up’ from classes, regarding ‘who blogs?’, because the response is so piss poor. The writer concludes that blogging is a minority occupation. Coincidentally I have also noted that I have encountered very few ‘hands ups’ from anybody who even knows what blogging is, in my own routine probing of the subject over the past few years.
Curiously by contrast ‘click online’ the BBC’s weekly analysis of Internet affairs, headlines, this week, the way that bloggers successfully thwart all Internet attempts at censorship. So while blogging may be a minority activity it is certainly an influential one, influential enough that the mainstream media are desperately appropriating the concept in an attempt to smother its effectiveness..
What is of interest to me however is the idea that the number of bloggists has peaked at around 24 million [English speakers] The writer does refer to another 50 million or so bloggers who write in other languages: these are not of concern to me in this blog. I would be inclined to agree with the M&G writer that blogging could actually be in decline, once one accepts that huge numbers of bloggers are not regular bloggers nor are all bloggers separate individuals, but like myself may well blog under many separate names in different places.
It seems to me though that there could be various reasons why blogging appears to have peaked [or may have peaked] in the English-speaking world: declining levels of literacy, the appropriation of blogging by the mainstream corporatocracy, the loneliness of the random bloggist and the sheer lack of any serious recognition, point, purpose or reward for what is after all a certain amount of intellectual effort.
It is possible that 20 odd million is about the limit of effective literacy in the English speaking world: a world that appears to have been typified by rising levels of Alliteracy over the past couple of decades. Reader surveys seem to have been routinely noting the decline in reading behaviour over the past decades by those beneficiaries of a modern education system. Apparently the US booksellers association reported recently that the number of Americans who admit to reading a novel in 2005 had declined to below 50% for the first time after hovering around the 50% mark for a number of years. Television viewing is the single biggest ‘participatory’ activity in the modern world.
In another report it seems that the 300 million Americans who populate that country only manage to consume 15 million daily newspapers now which is far less that a century ago when there were much fewer people. In South Africa, where this blogger lives, the biggest selling newspaper manages about 250,000 copies a day and one would be hard pressed to call the Daily Sun reading matter, notwithstanding that is a master of the pithy headline. Neither the most serious daily newspaper: Business Day, nor weekly newspaper, The Mail and Guardian can claim much more than 30,000 copies sold each; and even with a modest three readers per copy [a doubtful speculation] 90,000 readers out of a population of some 45 million is readership at its most elitist. The evidence throughout the English speaking world for the decline in reading activity is widely documented and has been happening for some decades now. I have myself written on the subject as far back as 1976.
As an aside comment… Yesterday I stood in a ’round- the-block’ queue for an hour and a half waiting for the licence office in Loveday street [Jozi} to open [ it never did]. I passed the time reading a novel by Carl Hiaasen [Skin Tight, for those who are interested].
Various people around me commented on my strange activity- they simply stood, passively waiting. An old man who was moving up and down the two hundred-metre line of people [selling document folders] told me I was the only person dumb enough to be reading when everyone else was watching out for pickpockets. I did however notice a few people [two] reading one or other of the daily newspapers. The man in front of me was puzzled when I laughed at something I had read, and commented gratuitously, even smugly, accompanied with serious halitosis, that he had never read a thing since he finished school. Other chaps around him agreed that reading was an unhealthy activity- ‘Bad for the eyes’ one said, to general agreement. So much for 25% of the national budget going to educate people in how to stop reading.
When one contrasts all this above evidence with the truism that the most popular activity on the Internet is [apparently] gawping at dirty pictures on a proliferation of porn sites; with the next most common activity being the deletion of spam emails from one’s email account then it is unsurprising that blogging would be an extreme minority activity.
Notwithstanding this, blogging has proved to be a potent force for prising apart the insidious grip of the mainstream media’s ‘gate-keeping’ function. Bloggers tell that part of the world that cares, about the other ways in which the news may be interpreted, whether real, quirky, fictional, self indulgent or fiercely accurate.
For this reason the Mainstream media are striking back and blogging has been appropriated by almost all worthy media as a way of reinforcing corporate messages using the blind credibility that blogging has acquired. In effect the corporate response to the Blog phenomena has been to attach Blogging to the Public Relations function that so powerfully attempts to mould opinion to conform to corporate needs and wants. In this way ‘authoritive’ voices can be given media supported space to crowd out the more ‘hysterical’ messages of the independent blogger.
Which gives us the third element that must inevitably crowd out the independent voice: The loneliness of the long distance Internet. Anyone who has attempted to present a message on the World Wide Web knows that the experience is similar, in a way, to what would happen if one farted on the centre line of a crowded football stadium. Perhaps a few people nearby might get the message about the state of one’s bowels but the vast mass of the gathered crowd would remain oblivious.
I routinely use the Internet, and specifically Google, for teaching purposes with my classes at the high school where I facilitate the learning of business practice. For instance I may start with a fun statement like ‘business games’: a request to Google that will pull 300 million pages of choices. Given that each page contains 10 entries that is THREE BILLION choices available at the press of a button. We keep refining the question until we find a game, for instance, that is appropriate to what we are studying. Even then our choices run to the thousands.
The random bloggist is lost with such choice. The core problem of the Internet has always been ‘How does one target the untargetable’. To date the best solution is Google and that is hardly a solution.
So inevitably the random bloggist who forms a part of that amorphous 20 million odd bloggers allegedly out there stating their purpose will operate without pay in an environment where they will be lucky if they can attract a few hundred readers. And these readers are so spoilt for choice that they will soon move on in search of greater novelty.
At best blogging is a self-indulgent activity that seeks no reward other than the knowledge that like Kilroy ‘they were there’ and have some small measure of fame in an elusive fame-free world and this must be the ultimate minority activity. Why spend time writing something that almost no one will ever read or even care about.
And as for journalism students blogging on the web, I also suspect that blogging could only be a ancillary activity for such journalism students who choose to operate without editorial control; which is hardly something a good journalism school would teach would they?
The essence of blogging is founded in taking the initiative to say what one wants to say without any form of interference from anyone at all- These are my undiluted, unmediated words, and fuck you if you don’t like what I say. There are no advertisers to offend, no vested interests to protect, and no subtextural hidden agendas to covertly promote. The very idea that journalism students should be practiced Bloggers is almost a complete contradiction of their terms of [future] employment. Too much independence would compromise their employment potential as ‘Hacks’ to the corporatocracy. Aah but then I am ignoring the fact aren’t I that the corporate blogs That have appropriated our invention are probably as carefully edited and proofread as any piece of writing that goes in a piece of mainstream media. If a blog has a corporate logo it can be sued.
Ultimately when one thinks about the problem of figuring out how to say something coherent enough to be read by a third party without an editorial intermediary; and then being able to do this consistently, for no financial reward, to an ultimately indifferent, jaded, communication saturated, marginally committed reader, with an eight word attention span, then we know that what is really surprising is that there are as many as 24 million of us at all.
Viva Bloggers.
Category : Uncategorized
3 Responses to ““To the average joe…blogs aren’t cutting it”…M&G a comment”
kchasu, on April 17th, 2007 at 11:19 am Said:
I was talking to a seasoned PR person the other day. He is terribly out of touch with any actual work, or the Internet for that matter.
Nevertheless he is telling his clients that his agency will set up blogs for them.
I was pissed off. Who the hell are they kidding? Would any of us on here read anything that was blatantly advertising of one sort or another?
No.
And PR is my business. But blogs or chatrooms are no place for it. i used to think they might be. but they are not. the small population that is literate enough to produce online, is not going to be influenced by that kind of crap. therefore, for me, this blog is the last outpost of civilisation.
i see Duncan Mcleod has started a blog. it’s press releases!!!! i know this, because we send him some. and there is a big fuss made because this journo “launches a blog”. crap.
utter shite.
corporates are the politicians of this century in terms of propaganda. it’s fine. but they don’t understand the Internet. they just see a medium and can’t believe they can’t use it.
i immediately steer clients away from “corporate blogging”. it will be a monstrous mess. they would be flamed. it’s harmful.
brandon96end, on April 18th, 2007 at 6:47 am Said:
Unless you have a cpative audience and a really articulate person handling the blog, it can just become a mess… even then, a blog is not the place to advertise. Unless, of course, you can back everything up… all the time.
Данил, on December 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 am Said:
Very useful and informative text !
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