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A Proposal For Unionizing Bloggers
mikesd81 writes "Coloumbia Journal Review writes about the possibility of unionizing bloggers. Chris Mooney writes 'Yes, dear reader: the Bloggers Guild of America may be on its way. The dispute between screen and television writers and media conglomerates has its roots, after all, in the Web.' He says, then, they get zero compensation for their products being distributed over the Internet. 'Bloggers often earn that same salary. There are exceptions, of course, those fortunate few who have become quasi-celebrities in their own right and found themselves, and their sites, snatched up by major media companies,' he goes on to say. He also adds that a bloggers guild could protect a blogger's intellectual property and help ensure they're compensated for it."
Its the best idea ever.
That way we can abuse their rights and they can go on strike!!!
liqbase
they get zero compensation for their products being distributed over the Internet
The vast majority of them earn every penny of that.
It's the hackers thatt need a union, what with all the negative publicity they get when they do naughty stuff.
;)
The Hackers Guild could then provide *protection* to the Bloggers Guild - for a small fee, of course...
"He Who Dares Wins"
They're taking the piss surely?
OMG! The bloggers are on strike, oh noes!! Where will I get my random crap and aerated opinions from?!!!
It's almost as ridiculous as the 'Students Unions' we have in Universities here...
I'm sure that the blogger in question was just being sarcastic... It would have been much more amusing if he also suggested that the people who leave comments should unionise into the Trolls Guild or something, though.
apterous.org
... they could just stop blogging if they are not getting paid for it and really want to be. Nobody would miss them, especially not those bloggers already making money. This self-important blabbering is great blog-content, but entirely uninteresting -- much like most blogs. What did your dog do today ?
Why does this topic remind me of a certain philosopher's strike?
I must admit he does spend a lot of time on his blog these days.
After he won "Best in Show" at the 2006 Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show, his blog was serialized in Breeders Times and he just doesn't get time to go for regular walkies anymore.
"He Who Dares Wins"
Isaac Asimov once suggested that if one needed to determine whether a person claiming to be a scientist on To Tell the Truth was really a scientist or just an impostor, they could write 'unionize' on a piece of paper, hold it up, and ask the person to pronounce the word.
An impostor would probably say 'yoon-yun-ize' while a real scientist would more likely say 'un-ion-ize'.
When I read the headline, I was thinking of ions as well.
It's an election year, after all.
Rather than threatening to go on strike if they don't get paid, the Blogger's Guild could offer to go on strike if they do get paid. That seems far more likely to produce income as far as I can see.
Quite so. It is commonly known that the goggles, they do nothing!
Not a sentence!
MAJIKTHISE: We'll go on strike!
VROOMFONDEL: That's right. You'll have a national philosopher's strike on your hands.
DEEP THOUGHT:Who will that inconvenience?
MAJIKTHISE: Never you mind who it'll inconvenience you box of black legging binary bits! It'll hurt, buster! It'll hurt!
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
'Since I know the chemical profession best, I devised two questions, for instance, to tell a chemist from a nonchemist. Here they are:
(1) How do you pronounce UNIONIZED?
(2) What is a mole?
There is a much better way to tell the chemist from the nonchemist. Chemists wash their hands before they go to the bathroom.