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There’s a television ad doing the rounds at the moment for Orange, the mobile telephony company. It features somebody called Rives, who is apparently the world’s first 2.0 poet, whatever that is.
Those who write blogs in Romania have been falling over themselves to hail Orange and their initiative for featuring Rives, who is of course one of their heroes: a talentless bullshit merchant who calls himself a ‘2.0 poet’. Why a ‘2.0′ poet? Simple. He isn’t good enough to be an actual poet.
And that is what bloggers love about him. For in him, are they. A blogger, let’s face it, is someone who couldn’t break into or hack proper journalism.
The crap we come up with here, for example, is here for a reason: it is not good enough (or relevant enough) for print.
And that is the problem with the internet: it is infinite. A magazine, newspaper, book or such like only has a finite amount of space. To get your words in there they need to be good. An editor, someone with expertise and years of know-how, has to believe in you and your work. Online the same quality control does not apply: anyone with an internet connection and a cheap computer can publish something on the web. Talent not required.
People like Rives sum up the 2.0 culture. Not patient or talented enough to take the traditional route to being published, via readings, peer criticism and such like, he took the short route, appointing himself ‘the world’s first 2.0 poet.’ It’s the equivalent of snowboarding before you can ski, or bloggers who have never had anything published in print.
In fact, ever noticed how bloggers never ski? They are always snowboarders. Unwilling and unable to reconcile with the years of instruction it takes to become a competent skier, they take the easy route straight to the snowboard, which can be learned in a few hours.
And just as snowboarders should not be allowed to take part in their awful activity until they are competent skiers, so bloggers should not be allowed anywhere near a computer with their half-baked nonsense until they have been published in print.
As for the world’s first 2.0 poet, let’s just hope there is not a second.
mai nesimsitzilor cine va credeti?
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And then I realized that you have been published in print and you’re not hiting yourself with this article.
I like blogs because they’re somewhat an expression of freedom. When I write posts in my blog I just take what’s mine. If an editor doesen’t want to publish me in his newspaper it doesen’t necessarily mean that I don’t have something interesting to say! Take the Romanian press for example: full of bull sh*t! I know at least 10 bloggers who could publish an article in any Romanian newspaper. Here’s a business idea: a weekly newspaper with the most interesting articles found on blogs over the internet that week. You’re gonna break the market if you do this!
And don’t forget that newspaper columnists and editorialists are just people and while they might be very good at journalism – the subjects that they write about come from other domains so if we are to be correct only professionals should write in newspapers (engineers for science related articles, politicians for politics, sports people for sports related articles, etc…).
So in my opinion bloggers either never tried to write for newspapers or stupid editors don’t want to take them to write for newspapers (when things aren’t as they’re supposed to be it always means there’s someone stupid in charge). And I haven’t made a point of honor in contradicting you, but if I go now to a newspaper and ask them to make a weekly column of trading strategies and developments to look for in the markets next week nobody gives a sh*t!
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