April 18, 2006
two questions
Two hypothetical questions:1. "How do I use blogs to change the world?"
2. "How do I use blogs to preserve the status quo?"I speak at a lot of blogging conferences and whatnot. Seems to me, as these gigs get more mainstream and corporate, I'm asked Question Two A LOT MORE than Question One.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
[AFTERTHOUGHT:] I guess I drew the cartoon above for a reason.
[Bonus Link:] The Boston Globe: "Blogs 'essential' to a good career."
[Ego Surf:] You know the world has changed when Hugh Hefner and Hugh Grant are no longer on Page One of Google.
Posted by hugh macleod at April 18, 2006 8:01 AM | TrackBackoui, m'sieu
though wouldn't you say blogs have already changed the world else question 2 would be moot?
Posted by: niti at April 18, 2006 8:49 AMI think blogs have already changed the world; just not everybody's ready to acknowlegde it yet.
Posted by: Hugh MacLeod at April 18, 2006 9:56 AM1. use blogs to tell the untold or to tell something in a brand new way!
2. do not use blogs, or use blogs to "sell" same usual trash in usual (trashed) way.. I got large personal experience about this last way..
anyway large amount of alchol could help to find the answer!
Posted by: sO at April 18, 2006 9:59 AMhugh, that I gotta agree with, in fact intend to participate in a forum next month where the speaker's blurb is, verbatim,
"As the lines blur between "official" journalists and crackpot bloggers, Hollywood blockbusters and "independent" films, and true praise and product placement, what can we trust?"
totally, excellent cartoon btw, as usual, I shall ...uh...borrow it :) for my rebuttal.
That's a great twist on one of my all-time fave quotes: "never teach a pig to sing. it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
Hugh:
Any word on the Stormhoek roll-out in the States?
Then, how about in "fly-over" country like Wisconsin. I can't wait to get some!
Thanks!
Posted by: Kevin Behringer at April 18, 2006 4:56 PMQu.2/Answer: You don't
Posted by: Dennis Howlett at April 18, 2006 5:00 PMDid someone mention dinosaurs!
Re: Q2. You don't need to Hugh, they've already got one! http://www.statusquo.co.uk/
Posted by: Phil Dale at April 19, 2006 12:09 AM1. I actually show up.
2. I forget who I am and ask the speaker.
3. [The question is irrelevant] I turn back the clock and become a dinosaur arguing with a meteor.
Posted by: Dan at April 19, 2006 6:05 AMExactly, B.L.
Posted by: Hugh MacLeod at April 19, 2006 8:20 AMOne well placed post on something everyone wants goes from zero to a million "impressions" before the meteor can be taken out by a nuke.
Posted by: Keith Combs at April 19, 2006 8:53 AMYou asked a few posts back what we're doing with the hi-res versions of your cartoons. Well, if you'll post a hi-res version of this, the first thing I'll do is take it to a copy shop and have it printed out on as big a piece of paper as the resolution will allow.
Posted by: Peter Orosz at April 19, 2006 12:39 PMNow let's work towards a world where bloggers get laid more often than Hugh Hefner.
Posted by: Mike at April 19, 2006 4:48 PMWow!
Posted by: Alvin at April 19, 2006 5:56 PMHugh... next time you get around to doing shirts (or mugs or glasses or whatever...) this cartoon should be in there. Put me down for one now. Probably 2nd favorite to "Market for something to believe in is infinite"... or maybe 3rd now that you did the coffee one... we'll need one of those too!
Posted by: RichW at April 20, 2006 7:47 PMcongrats to the Ego Surf : I did it too!!
Makes u feel good, na. the world changing.
Are you coming to Reboot?