Reasons to Become a Professional Blogger
August 2nd, 2006 | by MadHacktress |…whatever that means.
Apparently those of us with more than a passing interest in online affairs don’t pass the white glove test.
According to the Globe & Mail, as well as CTV.ca, Statistics Canada has found that people who use the internet for more than an hour a day for their personal (that is non-professional) lives let their personal lives suffer. They spend less time with their children and spouses, their housework and neighbours.
They - okay, let’s be honest here… We spend a lot less some resting, relaxing, sleeping or, get this one, thinking.
When did they invent a Neilson box for the brain?
So I have decided to become a Professional Blogger. I have virtually no idea what the term means, though I know it exists. I do not know what it entails or how to pursue it… but if I manage to make a go of it, I’ve got me a free pass to internet addiction - take that personal-use-only suckers.
Update: The CBC has chimed in as well.
Entry Filed under: In The News, Pure Opinion
Thinking is highly over-rated anyway.
Many people have given up thought; check Blogging Tories or any cabinet meeting in Ottawa since the last election. (j/k)
Because, you know, things like research can’t be done on your personal time on the computer. And things like watching the tellie involve so much of the brain, and bring the family together for some good ol’-fashioned discussion time.
Now, granted, not everyone uses the internet in the way that I do, but many do, as well. Thinking does go on when one is online, even when playing a game of Rainbow Six with others, because you have to be able to use sound tactics.
I love the fact that TV NETWORKS and NEWSPAPERS (who have a vested interest in the use of the internet as a research and information tool) are the ones casting these stones, too. NO reason for them to be biased against the internet, I’m sure.