Bryan W. Alaspa 1The insatiable thirst
September 22nd 2009 13:42
These days I have become a bit of a lecturer. I never thought that was going to happen in my lifetime. I am not the type who generally likes to stand up in front of a hundred people and talk to them about, well, really about anything. For me it was huge to be able to sit in front of thirty people and read from one of my books.
These days, though, I am suddenly an expert on blogging. Considering you have to be on my blog right now to be reading this, you may be able to understand why this is a topic I am fairly comfortable with. Anyway, I discuss how blogs can be use for business purposes. The idea of using them for your business, however, is not make money from the blog itself but to increase your business through your own in-house online publication.
Of course, there are people out there who are making money with their blogs. I mention these people during my presentation and you can always see people leaning forward a bit, taking more intense notes and listening more intensely. You can sense the room change when I start talking about how they can make money with their blogs. However, I soon crash down on those ideas of wealth through blogging by telling them a startling truth about blogs. That truth is that the only blogs that really make any money these days are those celebrity gossip blogs.
TMZ.com started as just a blog. Essentially, it still is. However, before too long it was getting so much traffic that it expanded and is now a dreadfully boring and awful television show. For some reason, however, the general public has an insatiable thirst for following celebrities to a degree that has never been seen before.
I have no idea why people want to know what Suri Cruise is up to. She is a little girl who has not starred in any movies but just happens to have famous parents. At the same time, I have no idea why they care about her parents either. Unless one of them is in a movie and is out promoting it, who cares what her parents do with their every day lives?
You would think that people would take a look at celebrities’ lives and realize that, essentially, they are the same people with the same kind of problems with the added fact that they have more money and make movies and stuff like that. Nothing could possibly be more boring than someone’s everyday life. People get up and then they do stuff like shopping and eating and walking around and sometimes they work. Who cares that it is a celebrity doing this as opposed to your next door neighbor?
Of course, there are some “celebrities” out there that have taken this obsession and become “celebrities” without ever having to produce anything that we can consider entertainment. These are people who just exist to exist. These are utterly talentless people like Paris Hilton and Heidi Montag and her doubly-talentless husband Spencer. They have taken the world’s obsession with watching pretty people do things and turned that into their careers.
Personally I think this is the best example of how stupid the general public has become. Long ago we apparently started turning our brains off because thinking hurts too much. If you are looking for a true example of the decline of civilization, just look at one of these websites or celebrity blogs. I dare you not to weep.
These days, though, I am suddenly an expert on blogging. Considering you have to be on my blog right now to be reading this, you may be able to understand why this is a topic I am fairly comfortable with. Anyway, I discuss how blogs can be use for business purposes. The idea of using them for your business, however, is not make money from the blog itself but to increase your business through your own in-house online publication.
Of course, there are people out there who are making money with their blogs. I mention these people during my presentation and you can always see people leaning forward a bit, taking more intense notes and listening more intensely. You can sense the room change when I start talking about how they can make money with their blogs. However, I soon crash down on those ideas of wealth through blogging by telling them a startling truth about blogs. That truth is that the only blogs that really make any money these days are those celebrity gossip blogs.
TMZ.com started as just a blog. Essentially, it still is. However, before too long it was getting so much traffic that it expanded and is now a dreadfully boring and awful television show. For some reason, however, the general public has an insatiable thirst for following celebrities to a degree that has never been seen before.
I have no idea why people want to know what Suri Cruise is up to. She is a little girl who has not starred in any movies but just happens to have famous parents. At the same time, I have no idea why they care about her parents either. Unless one of them is in a movie and is out promoting it, who cares what her parents do with their every day lives?
You would think that people would take a look at celebrities’ lives and realize that, essentially, they are the same people with the same kind of problems with the added fact that they have more money and make movies and stuff like that. Nothing could possibly be more boring than someone’s everyday life. People get up and then they do stuff like shopping and eating and walking around and sometimes they work. Who cares that it is a celebrity doing this as opposed to your next door neighbor?
Of course, there are some “celebrities” out there that have taken this obsession and become “celebrities” without ever having to produce anything that we can consider entertainment. These are people who just exist to exist. These are utterly talentless people like Paris Hilton and Heidi Montag and her doubly-talentless husband Spencer. They have taken the world’s obsession with watching pretty people do things and turned that into their careers.
Personally I think this is the best example of how stupid the general public has become. Long ago we apparently started turning our brains off because thinking hurts too much. If you are looking for a true example of the decline of civilization, just look at one of these websites or celebrity blogs. I dare you not to weep.
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