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."

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Re:Unionizing

[RDW]

Well, some bloggers like to think of themselves as free radicals!

Incidentally:

http://membership.acs.org/W/WNY/db2005/db0305.html

'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?

In response to the first question, the nonchemist is bound to say "YOO-yun-ized," which is the logical pronunciation, and the dictionary pronunciation, too. The chemist, however, would never think of such a thing; he would say without a moment's hesitation: "un- EYE -on-ized."

In response to the second question, the nonchemist is bound to say, "A little furry animal that burrows underground," unless he is a civil engineer who will say, "A breakwater." A chemist, on the other hand, will clear his throat, and say, "Well, it's like this -" and keep talking for hours.

There's my cue. Shall we talk about the chemical version of the little furry animal?"

~~"To Tell a Chemist" Isaac Asimov 1965'