Are Blogging and Unemployment Related?

Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington Post is really nice with bloggers. Yesterday, it carried an article named "Free Speech -- Virtually," or "Legal Constraints on Web Journals Surprise Many 'Bloggers'". Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold." As said Chris Gulker, "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short. It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. Check this column for a summary or the original article for more details."

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Professional Trollenizing

[unterderbrucke]

"Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold"

In other words, Chris Gulker is a professional troller.

Blogging will cost you a job

[RumpRoast]

If you use that word in an interview

"I'm an avid blogger in my spare time"

*slap* *slam*

Breaking news...

[Fnkmaster]

Unemployed people don't have anything to do with their time. Also observed - a tendency to post more on Slashdot, download more porn, leech MP3s and warez from Kazaa, and install 5 Linux distros for comparison purposes and spent 18 hours setting up multi-boot. This and other news, tonight at 11.

Blogging? Whatever.

[teamhasnoi]

I'm sure more jobs are lost to posting to /.

I am supposed to be working right now.

Damn you /., Damn you straight to hell!

'webloggers' for long

[dan_bethe]

As said Chris Gulker, "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short.

With the creation of the latest stupidest-buzzphrase-abbreviation-hybrid-on-earth, saving unemployed hackers of the world the overuse of those two whole characters w and e, the RSI-wracked populace may finally begin to heal.

Re:When are people going to stop doing this?

[TheMooX]

Well, it must because the faster processors are doing the smoking! Especially them AMDs, gotta be careful with 'em -- they say it's peer pressure, ya know.

Really?

[MacAndrew]

In recent years the number of teenage smokers has dropped, and cpu processor speeds continues to increase, the two must be related

Really? Tell the Post, they might publish it!

As was hammered into our heads in Bio 1, "correlation does not prove causation." Repeat 100 times. Remember it when reading The Bell Curve. Now if only the rest of the world would do the same.

Blogging gets people jobs too...

[ewanrg]

As anyone who's followed Mark Pilgrim's progress at Dive into Mark (www.diveintomark.org) knows, he recently got a plum writing assignment from O'Reilly because of the work he did on his website. I've noticed that Dave Winer seems to be doing quite well with his job and his web log.

I seem to recall a few logic problems when I was in college that sounded an awful lot like the thinking in this article. Not that you have to take a logic class to be a reporter these days I suppose... :-)

The Big Picture

[NeoMoose]

It isn't just "bloggers" - it's more like "people who don't know anything better to do with the internet"

Wow! More startling news.

[mako]

Correlation found between masturbation and lack of a girlfriend. News at 11:00!

Re:Well, duh

[rjamestaylor]

I wonder what relationship blogging while employed has to impending unemployment. . .

Re:It's the fault of the mainstream media

[rjamestaylor]

Oooooowwww I want to send this to a former colleague SOOOoooOOOOO bad. He's a web designer who STILL uses the animated GIF of a letter going into the envelope on ALL his customer's sites--even the high dollar ones. He only uses frames (and wonders why the padlock icon doesn't work on secure sites), has Under Construction pages on commerical sites which are over a year old, and has a "This site does not work for AOL users" message on one site.

I'm sure he wonders why he's having a hard time getting clients, too. . .

Are Blogging And Unemployment Related?

[ellem]

Well DUH, WTF else did I have to during my 39 weeks off? You think I was going to wade through the billion bullshit postings filled with disjointed acronyms and technologies that don't go together?

A favorite. I saved it.

"Must know Exchange 2000 on Solaris 8."

What? And when I asked that question on the phone after tracking them down like the fugitives they were the HR troll said:

"If you're not qualified why did you call?"