Bloggers
Just read Kathy Foley’s article about Irish Bloggers in the Sunday Times. I’m glad to find that I’m not an intellectual. It has been a great worry to me in recent times that maybe I suffered from this terrible infliction, but now I can rest easy. I have come to this conclusion because to understand the language she uses in her article, I would need a dictionary.
I’m only new to blogging and I must admit I it’s hard to find the time to write most days. Unfortunately, I’m not a journalist so my day does not revolve around writing and having constant access to a computer. Plus I usually have to wrestle the laptop off Mr.S any time I want to use it.
But imagine if we did all started writing about our individual jobs just like the American examples she uses. You would then have blogs by retailers, hairdressers, accountants, IT workers etc, all talking about their jobs (no one would probably even read anyone else’s blog). Would this not mean that suddenly bloggers would be portrayed as a profession first and their personalities would become non-existent? According to the writer, in America there are ‘blogs on every topic imaginable-from architecture to zoology’, well that’s grand for all those zoologists in the country, all twenty of them. Does Kathy Foley realise that Ireland is a smaller country than America and that all the zoologists here probably know each other? Another point here is that we are not Americans. Might be a fairly obvious point but hey it’s got to be said! But seriously do you really want to start blogging about your job when you get home from work? Or read about someone else’s job? How boring. What I think this particular journalist is missing, which, in turn, is making her miss the point of a lot of blogs, is a sense of humour.
By evening time I find I have read the paper and watched the news, so when I pick up the laptop I’m usually looking for a little light heartedness even if it means making light of serious issues.
So after pondering over this article, I’ve come to a conclusion that maybe, just maybe, she’s pissed off that her blog didn’t win at the awards, and what annoys her most is that she’s soooo much more intellectual than everyone else and she still couldn’t win! It’s gotta hurt!
March 5th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Not read the article myself, Mrs. S., but I did write up a ‘diary’ of sorts for one month two years ago. I’m a tour guide so every day is different for me - but it was a real chore by the end of it to not be going over the same stuff. I do prefer reading light-hearted stuff when I get online, like yourself.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Yea I really think that its great just to chill and read something funny at the end of a long day. By the way, congrats on winning the Shitetalker of the month comp.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Hahahaha! That makes it sound like I was the shitetalker of the month!!! But perhaps next month I can be .. teehehe.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Ha yea it does actually!! Wow if you were the Shitetalker of the month I wonder what prize you would get, in fact I wonder if Bertie got a prize? I must ask Mr S.
March 7th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Bertie’s prize is not getting my boot up his arse. Honestly. What an outrageous, egotisical twat of a man. I’ll have to practice my shite-talking for the nominations round.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Ha, that’s a good one; not getting your boot up his arse, classic! I know, Bertie is such an ejit, I can’t believe he’s allowed drive a car never mind run a country. But hey I didn’t vote for him in the last election (let it be known I didn’t vote for Enda either). Thank God, cos I just wouldn’t be able to live with the guilt of knowing I had anything to do with that idiot leading our country.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I didn’t vote for Bertie either. And I will admit, though with a feeling of dirty from the inside out, that I did vote for FG. Simply because I was going along with the hopes that if enough people vote for FF’s only real opposition that we might get someone else in the hot seat other than Bertie fecking Ahern.
No dice though.
I felt so dirty when I came out of the hall after voting though. So deep down, whoreishly dirty.
March 14th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Ah no I don’t think voting for FG was that bad, there wasn’t much choice. I really sat on the fence and voted for the Greens and Labour, I was hoping for some type of coalation (I can’t spell for shit) government. But looking back I’d say Enda is glad he didn’t get into power, cos the country is currently in such a shit state and any new government would have been blamed for it. So really I suppose it worked out well in the end, now FF have to face the music and guide the country through the bad times. But I’ve got a sinking feeling that the aren’t able to take care of their own arses never mind look after everyone elses.
At least it’ll teach people to vote for the times we live it not the times gone past.