Is blogging the new media?
I think we as serious Filipino bloggers are finally getting some front page.
Blogging is serious business. At least for me, it is. Although writing comes naturally for me, it’s not always easy to pick a topic and write about ‘whatever’. Especially for a blog as far-reaching and wide-read as Filipina Soul. With my co-author and sister, we cover all sorts of topics, and touch on anything that might be Filipino. We try to be relevant and stay abreast of events and trends. We research our topics, we hold interviews and ask questions so we’ll be knowledgeable. We find out what works with our readers and in an intelligent manner, we provide good content.Well-written, grammatically correct, engaging. We’re not journalists by profession (although for a semester I though I’d be one, instead I became a scientist) but we are journalists in attitude and, believe that good blogging is journalism.
Bong Austero, who also writes for Manila Standard Today, totally relates with where we are as the “new media”.
I personally think that some priceless gems in contemporary literature can be found among blogs. There have been many occasions when I have been blown away by the sheer beauty of something someone wrote in a blog. You read someone’s writings on life and living and you just cannot help but wonder why this person is not writing for some paper instead of those pretentious fashion victims and celebrities who think the world revolves around them or that the state of their closets constitutes excitement.
I will even go as far as to say that the level of punditry in the blogosphere is sometimes, if not often, more interesting and insightful than those in certain newspapers.
Being a blogger himself, Austero understands what we’re all about, but also why traditional media is ambivalent about us as journalists.
The criticism against bloggers, particularly those coming from seasoned journalists, is that bloggers have not earned their stripes to deserve the attention. Many bloggers, on the other hand, think of themselves as more real, more representative of the population, and certainly more honest because they are not beholden to anyone—not to editors, not to publishers, and definitely not to advertisers. The debate is just starting and should become more interesting as it begins to take on more substance and form.
On the other hand, he makes a comment that made me raise an eyebrow. Am I just reading him wrong, or does he think that people who make a money out of blogging are living most of their lives in cyberspace?! I forcefully dissent.
So read more on what he has to say.
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August 31st, 2006 at 9:29 pm
nice piece. on the contrary, if you are making money out of blogging, then you have time to do other things as well instead of just the cyberspace. i would like to believe that blogging liberated me from the bondage of an 8-5 job.
blogging is indeed the new media.
November 27th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
[…] With Abe Olandres celebrating his first full year as a fulltime problogger, I realized that blogging, the new media, could be a great alternative career for Filipinos. Writing in English is not a problem. You don’t have to be tech-savvy to blog. You can do it from home, or from the internet cafe on the street corner. […]
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