As a writer -- one who is actively looking for work -- I have seen a trend in employers asking for URLs or links to writing samples. Apply for a job, and they ask not for attachments, but for web-loaded material. Where's your website? PDFs? Please. A relic of the past. How many writers out there have old-school attachments to pass along their potential employers?
Another new school canvas is a blog. My informal study of blogs has discovered this: The first element wants to spout off with the hope that someone will listen. Politics, entertainment, whatever the issue of the day. Look at me! Read me! Follow me! Lord knows ther's enough sheep in the pasture to slake that thirst.
Number two is the "viral video" marksman. Set something up that will picque the interests of the masses and send it into the ether. A solid store front is not the goal here; just a quick fifteen minutes of fame. "Hey, check it out. That was me."
Then there is the biggest "blogosphere" denizens. The people who populate Blogger, Blogpot, Wordpress, even Twitter. Thesae folkd have something to say and for whatever reason they are not being heard in the cold, cruel world. Blogging/Twitting/Facebooking/whatever makes them feel like they're a piece of the puzzle.
If anybody is actually reading this, they may well be wondering where I place myself in the blogging spectrum.
As the title suggests, I am using this space as sort of a friend's ear; a forum for my own personal take on whatever I feel like commenting on.
This is an abbreviated Speaker's Corner and a redacted diary.
The last type of bloggers? Those like me. Someone who has something to say and just wants to say it.
Tune in later!
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