First they came for the girls, then they came for the linkage, now they are coming for you

Needless to say most bloggers start blogging for the girls (we are all men after all, or men pretending to be girls) but as blogging matures and new directions are taken blogging begins to serve more altruistic purposes:

For every columnist (to start with) on the serious UK newspapers, I'm going to put together a register of interests. I'm interested in memberships of quangos or other government type jobs, directorships of companies (public or otherwise), consultancy gigs, freebies, invitations to parties, close relationships with MPs or MPs staff or family, or anything else non-day-job related and dodgy.

It's a bit, you know, invasive. I mean digging around for info. on people, hoping to spot issues that, perhaps, can be used to embarrass them and all that. Too much like proper investigative journalism, though I don't suppose that would stop a subject of this most excellent venture kicking up a fuss about how a bunch of manic right-wing so called 'internet' 'diarists' 'or' 'bloggers' were deliberately trying to undermine them. Wake up and smell the fair trade coffee peeps, and don't complain when little people start doing what some of you have been doing since mankind first realised that words had the ability to change what people think about something.

I mean it would be rather revealing if a moral columnist was shown to be a sheep shagger, or worse, on the payroll of some EU organisation or some such.

Posted by John at March 3, 2005 09:43 AM | TrackBack