On blogging and stuff
Yellow Swordfish is feeling the strain of attempting to blog about every shitty thing the British government does.
It’s just not possible. It’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge – you get to the end and then you realise that the rot’s been setting in behind you so you have to start again. The upshot, of course, is that it does get demoralising with no end in sight – even more so if you are genuinely disturbed at the way things are going in a country that you love.
Political blogging is hard work, demoralising at times, but if we don’t keep tabs on the establishment, who will? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Down but not out mate…
July 10th, 2007 at 7:22 pmHow about making a portal or a new multi user blog something? A shared sense of purpose might make it easier.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:19 amThere are some out there. I write on Independence Home, for example, and I’ve written on Anthem4England a couple of times. The problem is, when people who already have blogs get together to write collaboratively they tend to just duplicate their own posts and all you end up with really is a blog of syndicated material.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:43 pmTake a break from it all….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5HsG7AN1Y
July 11th, 2007 at 11:11 pmWell, why bother? It’s not like bloggers are taken seriously anyway … or they shouldn’t be. If bloggers were actually journalists, doing a professional job, then it would be different. But we already have journalists for that. That leaves bloggers to make unsubstantiated claims, construct conspiracy theories and whine about minor disappointments in their personal lives. It’s hardly `keeping tabs on the establishment’, is it? Find something more productive to do.
(They are quite fun to read, though; like the Daily Mail letters column, but without getting your fingers grubby.)
July 14th, 2007 at 12:23 pm