- Just woke up from a nap. Listening to Carp Circles Radio. About to make some tuna salad. #
- About to fold some laundry while the tuna salad chills. Wait, wasn’t Sherry saying my life was so exciting? #
- Carp Circles Live is playing ABBA! That’s awesome. #
- About to have a.m. dirty story time, then take a shower and go get breakfast at Radial. #
- @audaciaray – Well aren’t you so cosmopolitan. #
- Taking a break from cleaning up for the party. Eating watermelon. @rustytanton – We need to go to WifeSaver in Augusta. #
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- Just got notification that my pole shipped via FedEx. It will not arrive by Saturday. :( But at July’s podcast party, it’s ON! #
- I was hoping to stay awake long enough to do laundry. But, no, I must sleep. #
- Krispy Kreme donuts – when they’re hot, they’re soooo good. #
- Outlook is fucking up. Gotta restart. #
- @SpaceyG – I was the one who suggested Derek contact you. He had me down for the panel except, oops, I’m not a vlogger. #
- @rollertrain – I kind of do want your job, actually. Problem is, I don’t want to leave my current job, or move away from ATL. #
- Pole estimated to arrive on July 5. #
- Annoyed. #
- About to head home. Might need a nap. #
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I’m not surprised:
92%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
Mingle2 – Online Dating
But, really, I took this quiz simply because of the graphic (I saw it on someone else’s site) and I knew Jenny – who is still blogless – would get a kick out of it.
Basically this post is one big inside joke that only a handful of people will understand.
Octogalore explains why feminism is still necessary. And she does a damn good job of it. I mean, honestly, I find it ridiculous that that’s even a question; but I know it is. And it annoys the shit out of me when people say that feminism isn’t necessary anymore, it’s done all its work, women are equal now, hooray! Or, “I’m not a feminist, I’m a humanist.” Oh my god! Just call the waaaahmbulance already!
Anyway, Octogalore is awesome. A lot of the comments on her post are skeeving me out, and I don’t know where those people came from – okay, I do; probably from that Feminist Critics blog, which I avoid like the plague – but I’m having a “GIT IT OFF ME MAW” reaction to them. So I would advise against reading the comments, and just stick to the awesome post. It;s chock full of facts and stats and numbers and good observations and common sense and just… well, read it. (And if you are, well, certain people [you know who you are!], don’t leave any skeevy comments. I do not want to contribute to any more of that over at her site.)
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- @shelbinator – That very topic was discussed at the SMC mtg. Which I’ll hopefully blog about tomorrow. Time for bed now. #
- At work. Once again… “no tweets to show.” :P #
- Sipping chai. Already feeling too caffeinated. #
- @hyku – You would’ve liked last night’s SMC meeting. :) I’ll have to email you. (No it wasn’t a debacle like last month.) #
- I’m having another existential crisis moment. :P #
- Just overheard a hilarious debate about the iPhone. #
- on hold w/ platinum stages trying to find out when my pole will get here #
- Pole won’t be here in time for the podcast party. :( But it should be here next week. Vageuly annoyed w/ PS, but what do you do. #
- I also wonder if PS will reduce the cost bc they’re now sending a 12ft. pole isntead of 12′10″ – guess I should call them again. #
- Blogged about last night’s SMC meeting. About to go home, then to Flatiron. #
- About to head to Flatiron. I’ve got a hankerin’ for their samosas. #
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Last night’s Social Media Club meeting was certainly better than last month’s! It was a smaller group – six of us – and I feel like we started to make some progress on investigating the issues of new media vs. traditional media (including, of course, the question of whether it has to be one versus the other) – but there’s a lot still to unpack. The thing that struck me the most last night was the use of certain terminology to both disparage new media and prop up traditional media. The word in question last night was “artistic.”
A guy named Mike, whom I hadn’t met before, criticized vloggers/vidcasters by saying they aren’t professional, they aren’t trained… etc., etc., all the usual stuff… but then: “Professional videographers know how to find the art in a shot.”
So, videographers in traditional media are artists, not just amateur hacks. And that’s a good thing.
But – remember last month’s meeting? – bloggers are artists, and that’s a bad thing. Real reporters are much more serious, you see. They’re not just artistic. They’re professional.
Honestly, I am baffled by this.
“Artistic” is, at once, a compliment to certain people, and a dismissive wave of the hand to other people. Bloggers are unprofessional, irresponsible, unreliable, amateur hacks – and part of the problem is that they’re too artistic. But, vloggers/vidcasters are also unprofessional, irresponsible, unreliable, amateur hacks – and the problem is that they are not artistic enough.
I mentioned this disconnect to the meeting participants, but the discussion ended up going in a different direction, and I never heard an explanation of why artistic is sometimes good and sometimes bad in media. I wonder if people just say these things without really thinking about what they’re saying. I’m not sure, which is why I would’ve liked to discuss it further. Interestingly, Mike and a few others seemed to get very defensive when I asked the question. I don’t think I asked it in a confrontational or accusatory manner; I was honestly curious. Like I said, I think there’s a lot to unpack here. And yeah, it might get uncomfortable at times, but really, that’s part of the point.
I don’t want to just write it all off as, “Well, old media types are scared, and they say reactionary things, using whatever terminology suits at the time.” Because I really do think there’s more to it than that (although certainly, there’s quite a bit of that, too). I think it’s worth exploring in more depth.
Other quick thoughts from last night:
- Why the continued emphasis on drawing and maintaining lines between “bloggers” and “journalists?” Why is the divide so important?
- How and why do certain bloggers (e.g., Michael Arrington, Arianna Huffington) come to be known as journalists, not “just” bloggers? What is the tipping point? Why are labels important, anyway?
- I’m tired of being discussed as a third-person concept. Bloggers this, bloggers that. HELLO. I am a blogger, and I’m sitting right here. Instead of making a bunch of grandiose generalizations about bloggers, talk to me. And listen.
- Frankly I’m getting pretty tired of being verbally kicked around and talked about in dismissive ways because I’m “just a blogger.” Well, I’m a person. It’s really not cool to sit there and talk about how stupid and unimportant a large, diverse group of people is, when a bunch of them are in the room – and expect them not to notice or not to mind.
- Why do some people see “bloggers” as a monolith? Is it honest ignorance (just not knowing much about blogging), or willful ignorance? Again, why is it important to maintain this monolithic view, and the distinction of “blogger” and “not a blogger?”
- Somebody said last night, as if it were a bad thing, “We could’ve been having this conversation in a bar” – ostensibly to lament that there weren’t more people, or it wasn’t more structured, I guess. But I was thinking, “Yes, we could – and that would be awesome!” I love having conversations like that, at a bar or anywhere else – let’s just leave the egos, the stupid little power trips, the weird superiority complexes, all the rest of it, at the door.
- When managing online communities, don’t start from a place of condescension or assumed superiority. It puts people on the defensive and (rightly) pisses them off. Also, people rise to the expectations set for them.
Would write more, but gotta get going for now. Looking forward to more conversations like this – some at bars, some in conference rooms. :)
ETA: This Gaping Void cartoon makes me laugh. I thought it was somewhat relevant to, well, not really last night’s meeting in particular, but just a general type of conversation that tends to go on at social media events and unconferences.
