Get your blackjack off my table
Get your coat out of my rack
Spinning off of the ethics in blogging thing, Jeneane magisterially sums up a discussion of blogging and bucks and generates more conversation about it.
Some of the discussion involves Clay Shirky's amateurization of blogging piece. He says, in part: "Traditional publishing creates value in two ways....Weblogs destroy this intrinsic value..."
'Cause we've almost made it
We've almost made it
We've almost made it to the top
Frank Paynter picks up the thread, then revisits it here, inviting further exploration.
A few thoughts:
Got a gun from Uncle Freddy
Got a station all picked out
1. Corporations have wealth. Bloggers, mostly, just have talent, spirit, je ne sais quoi, etc.
Got a plan and now we're ready
Gonna take that station out
2. The only thing to figure out is how to negotiate an exchange between spirit and wealth, without falling into the same old anal crevass that has made Hollywood and Madison Avenue the charnel houses of the world's imagination.
So you go on about your business
You just leave use folks alone
3. It behooves us to keep in mind that mostly, end users do not underwrite the costs of "content."
We don't need no two-bit junkie
Screwin' up our happy home
4. Banner ads on the Net don't work, and pop up ads are inimical to life itself.
'Cause we've almost made it
We've almost made it We've almost made it to the top
5. The transfer of wealth from corporate coffers to individuals might require an unusually bold move - e.g., a heist. Bloggers alas, can't simply band together and hold up corporations, like highwaymen of old...can they? The transfer will have to be accomplished some other way. Don't tell me all these voices, all these reflective intelligences, can't get something going. Parfums du neant? Or, T-shirts du poisson? Maybe just a little numbers racket with extortion on the side?
What you wanna come back here for?
Thought you're with your uptown friends
Don't need none of your junkie business
You gonna screw us up again
