This Is This

It seems that everyone has a blog these days. I was looking around the BBC site and they have editors writing blogs there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/

For those of you who are interested, its people who publish things for a living writing for free and publishing about the things they publish. Not writing things you want to read, writing about the things you want to read.

OK, it’s a little like the thing I did on Wednesday, but I thought blogs were about giving people a voice, rather than giving people with voices an outlet to talk about what they do in their media careers.

I have a blog. I work in the media. I do not blog about my work in the media. I do not write news stories about my blog. But someone at the BBC thinks it is important to publish more than the stuff they are meant to.

Hey I know: we should strike while the iron is hot. Whenever you read anything on the BBC, write to the editor and ask to read the person’s blog about the thing you just read. Ask the editor to write on their blog about the email you just sent. Then publish the reply to the email in your blog, and write an article about the whole sequence of events. Send that in to BBC News online for them to run as a story. When they run the story, write a blog post about it and invite member comments which you can send to the original editor’s blog. Then try and get a publishing deal and get invited on to BBC TV to talk about it and stick the whole interview on YouTube and send it in an email to everyone you know.

Can we please calm down with the publishing? It’s going to be OK.

As you can tell, it’s time for me to go on holiday, so my mate Iain is going to publish these pages while I am away.

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