Gems are sometimes hidden in surprising places. Jason Lee Miller, in a controversial post Do Bloggers Need to Unionize?, does the best job I’ve ever seen of capturing the essence of the blogosphere:
But that is sort of what (okay, completely what) made the medium so appealing. They answered to no one and therefore were accountable to no one; the individualist, populist, no-truth-barred approach both what propelled it and what held it back. Abused, sometimes inaccurate, sometimes out and out wrong, but for the most part, a development for the greater good, for freedom of speech, for information exchange, for the free market of ideas.”
The whole concept of bloggers unionizing leaves me scratching my head. I know that I enjoy my independence far too much to consider joining a union; and in reality, I’m not in the target audience … I blog for fun and influence rather than profit … and I’m guessing that’s true for most bloggers.
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Posted by: Scott Million | May 12, 2009 at 09:05 PM