Sniff...Our Little Internet Is Growing Up
Published February 05, 2006
I went back to the site and did some reading on the music section. I saw post after post of lengthy reviews, full of interesting info and opinions about the album and artists.
Wow. Blogcritics sure has come a long way.
Connie had the annoying quality of being right. I knew I had done a half-assed review, but I arrogantly thought that half-assed was good enough for the Internet.
Not so, my friends. We complain all the time about the sucky state of old guard journalism, and the dividing lines being blurred. The stuffy suits in the Times and News towers say that they have the right to be right, that they are more professional and accuse us bloggers of poor spelling and merely opinionating.
Well, I'm no Instapundit, but I have the right to be right as much as anybody.
However, the bar has been raised and we who have the soapbox have the responsibility. Here on the World Wide Web, we have the generational turnover of fruit flies. Been on the web two years? You're the elder statesman! No more screwing around. "Good enough" isn't good enough anymore.
The "child" I helped in my small way to bring into the world grew up to tell me to get with the times. Now that I'm over the shock, I'm really proud.
Fact is, I will probably never be as frequent a poster as I was in the early years, but I will never again take this forum lightly. With my right hand raised, I swear I will always and forevermore spell-check.
- Sniff...Our Little Internet Is Growing Up
- Published: February 05, 2006
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Culture: Media, Culture: Society
- Writer: Murphy
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Great Post, Murphy.
I haven't been a contributor for very long, and I haven't been able to post frequently, or participate in as much discussion as I would like to, but I've read as much as possible, and have to say that it's a great community, that consistently puts out quality material. It's something I'd always looked for, not just news, but a reaction to it with the bias and everything, Newsplus as they call it now.
In fact I've start spending more time here, and barely gone back to what was once my homepage Google News, in the past month or so.
Murphy,
I first read this in the group and thought it would make a great post on the site, then I read the encouraging words. I have been a contributor here since July of 2004 and have been around the top of the contributor list for quite some time. Its not out of some type of competition, but I feel that the only way to get better is to keep writing. My quality is spotty at best, but I always aim to fill a hole in my creative itch.
In my time here, I have seen this site grow by leaps and bounds. It has been quite amazing to be a first hand witness.
I too can be thin skinned at times, but I love the whole editing thing here. I feel that it is helping me to attain that goal of improving my writing, and the editorial staff deserves all the credit in thw world for the time and effort they put into increasing thw quality of the site. I know I have a long way to go before I become a truly proficient write.
Again, excellent post!
I love this part:
"Connie had the annoying quality of being right. I knew I had done a half-assed review, but I arrogantly thought that half-assed was good enough for the Internet."
Very well said. Good piece.
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Good post...yet we have miles to go before we sleep.