Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Let's Unionize for the sake of Unionizing! It appears that the bloggers on the left are so significantly insecure that they cannot view themselves as legitimate until they have a Union to join! Seriously... coming out of the KOS Convention (a gathering of "Left Leaning" bloggers) is the following:
AP
Bloggers Consider Forming Labor Union
Monday August 6, 9:24 am ET
By Ashley M. Heher, AP Business WriterLeft-Leaning Bloggers Debate Forming Labor Union
"Left Leaning"... heheh, hell if this collection leaned any more left they'd be inverted!
...a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.
Huh?... Seriously folks... If you are a "Blogger" you are generally a Hobbyist, or maybe even one of the few "A" list bloggers that have managed to woo enough readers by providing entertaining or useful content to make some money at the venture. Great! But if you think for a moment that being a "Blogger" deserves "Representation" by a Guild or Union I think you are suffering delusions of Yosemite-like Grandeur!
But that's not how Kirsten Burgard sees it.
Sitting at a panel titled "A Union for Bloggers: It's Time to Organize" at this week's YearlyKos Convention for bloggers in Chicago, Burgard said she'd welcome a chance to join a unionized blogging community.
"I sure would like to have that union bug on my Web site," said Burgard, a blogger who uses the moniker Bendy Girl.
Madrak hopes that regardless the form, the labor movement ultimately will help bloggers pay for medical bills. It's important, she said, because some bloggers can spend hours a day tethered to computers as they update their Web sites.
"Blogging is very intense -- physically, mentally," she said. "You're constantly scanning for news. You're constantly trying to come up with information that you think will mobilize your readers. In the meantime, you're sitting at a computer and your ass is getting wider and your arm and neck and shoulder are wearing out because you're constantly using a mouse."
Ah... It's a perspective thing... notice the choice of "Loaded Language" in the previous. Blogging is torturous!!! God knows I certainly relate my Blogging necessities(?) to the sweatshop atmosphere found in the 30's!!!
"...some bloggers can spend hours a day tethered to computers as they update their Web sites."
"TETHERED!" Yep... that's me... I'm a victim of the blogosphere! There I was innocently minding my own business, cooking my freshly killed impala over an open fire in West Africa when, this TypePad Executive threw a net over me, slapped me in irons and dragged me off to a Sailing Ship--Transporting me to a foreign tragic land, where I was TETHERED like a... well... Tether-ball... to a computer and forced to write mildly entertaining, factually insignificant, blather on a semi-daily basis... oh the horror!
Uh... you ever heard of... "Choice?" You get to "Choose" how you spend your time, nimrod!
So in reality what we probably have is a mediocre writer who could not quite cut the mustard and land a Mainstream Media position writing for the "East Coon Rapids Intelligencer's" socialite section... but somehow feels that now that she has "Her own" outlet for her literary and journalistic excellence, she is owed... Medical Benefits and Press Passes!
The blogosphere is truly the open market for content, if you write well and gain an audience, you can sell ad space on your site, if you are really entertaining and can gain a significant daily readership you get to charge more and maybe even pay for your own medical care. Else...
GET A REAL FRIGG'N DAY JOB! WHINER!!!
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