Dear Sir,
Further to your electronic message of 11.15 inst, my remarks are as
follows:
My, what a simply spiffing idea. We must take immediate steps to rid
the vlogosphere of its all-pervading corruption and incivility. Only
this past week, I looked at an internet programme in which a woman of
the Canadian persuasion strutted before the camera sporting a painted
goatee. You can imagine my horror. Wouldn't have happened in my
youth, I tell you. I will instruct my man to storm my brain for ideas.
Yours faithfully,
etc
On 10 Apr 2007, at 11:15, Mike Meiser wrote:
Based on the fact that twitter is so totally hot right now with
vloggers I
should probably be twittering this, but anyway...
It sounds like the blogosphere is putting together their own league of
decent bloggers.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070409-prohibition-and-
candelight-marches-a-code-of-conduct-for-bloggers.html
tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/24udle
(So much for arstechnica's insane url length.)
Anyway, the whole article makes me laugh... our own league of decent
vloggers shows remarkable foresight in pre-parodying the issue
before the
blogging space even grappled with it. Perhaps we could organize some
good
collective fun by dusting off the old league of decent vloggers
banners and
video intro's and outro's and put on a little participatory show for the
fine folks in the blogosphere. Perhaps a collective tag meme
LeagueOfDecentVloggers or simple decency.
I can see a nice Steve and Carol show where an especially prim and
proper
Steve and Carol with their fuzzy bunny slippers review the finer
points of
the old movie standards for self censorship. Glacticast too might be
able
to create some particularly resonate videos on the subject. :)
All in all I think the vlogosphere needs more protestants... perhaps the
some of the brits can help. :)
We did effectively demonstrate the power of the vlogosphere by making it
onto technoratti's top tags page pretty much every day of videoblogging
week... I'm not saying this is the subject... but perhaps we should
keep the
collective conversation going. I do so miss the electric verdi, such
a great
digital fire starter... alas I hear he spends his days in the far of
land
of Second Life, and his evenings in San Fran... it's to bad, we could
use
more digital firestarters like him in vloglandia. :)
Of course... the blogosphere, and I'm sure the vlogosphere too will
both I'm
sure grapple with the issue of decency again and again everytime we
collectively get that urge for that simple orwellian era when the
wife had
dinner on the table when the man got home from work at 5:15. :)
Me... I just love the fun. :)
It's much better than worrying about the bastardization of net
neutrality or
the tyranny of the looming my-goo-tube-yahoo-a-zon.
Peace,
-Mike
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