God help us all. A group of leftist political bloggers are wanting to create an all encompassing bloggers union. Thats right, a union to protect a group of people who have undertaken the individualistic effort of creating a blog.
I wonder about the human condition some times, and then I fret over it at others. To me, blogging is all about being an individual.
- I do not have an editor telling me what to write everyday.
- I do not have a boss demanding a certain level of production (wives do not count).
- I am blogging because it affords me the ability to write what I want to write when I want to.
Now these bloggers want to put me in a group with a label and dues because I call myself the Real Estate Blogger? What happens if I do not sign up, will Vito show up next to me at the local watering hole reminding me that it is in my best interests to join? Will there be a picket in my front yard by rent a mob?
Writing about real estate has gotten me away from politics, but the madness out there by so called progressives that insist that you are nothing until you are part of a group that has an action committee is insane. I blog because I am an individual. Me. Tom Royce.
I write for the Real Estate Bloggers and by calling myself a blogger I call myself an individual. Not a union member.
In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards.
The effort is an extension of the blogosphere’s growing power and presence, especially within the political realm, and for many, evokes memories of the early labor organization of freelance writers in the early 1980s.
Organizers hope a bloggers’ labor group will not only showcase the growing professionalism of the Web-based writers, but also the importance of their roles in candidates’ campaigns. via Yahoo! Finance.
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I could see bloggers forming a professional association to promote their interests. That would make sense. In a free society many such associations are formed all the time, and there is nothing wrong with them.
Only statists would want to form a labor union as conventionally understood, as the purpose for such organizations is always to gain state privileges restricting access to the profession and making it a cartel. That goal is clearly implied in this case. 'Collective bargaining' only works if employers are forced to negotiate with the union using state power, and members are required to join the union to work in the industry. Otherwise employers can just ignore the union and negotiate with individuals.
OK, so I am sitting here cracking up laughing trying to imagine how this union would work out in an environment with Realtors and Bloggers.
NOT!
While the power that bloggers could wield if we banded together would be staggering, could you just imagine trying to:
1) Organize them?
2) Get them to agree on anything?
3) Getting them to send you a check?
Too funny!
Laurie
It would be like herding cats.
Tom
Funny!
Amazing. Sometimes people make suggestions as a move of sarcasm, but to make this a serious movement is as likely as me getting Botox and acting in porn movies. There's like a 1% chance.
I don't agree with a great many efforts made by bloggers much less RE bloggers and I would never jump on board. I guess I'd have to call it a "personal blog" so as not to have to pay dues or agree with jerk faces on HOW to blog (which defeats the Web 2.0 movement anyhow, am I right?).
haha! too funny!