Blogging
Opinions, opinions, opinions: what’s the point of them?
Recently, I have been thinking a lot about my role as a writer particularly when it comes to commentary and op-ed writing. I am always asking myself if my writing is part of a solution, or part of the problem – the “problem” being a society in which everyone has something to say, but few [...]
Why It’s Great To Be an ‘Amateur’
There’s a guy called Andrew Keen who has been in the media a lot recently. He has been waxing lyrical about what he calls ‘the cult of the amateur’ (actually the title of his book).
According to him the blogger, the ‘citizen journalist’and those using the internet to make their voices heard are bad for society. He believes that web [...]