Job of the future
Blogs are taking over the Internet - they’re what we read now to get the spin, to get someone else’s opinion that we respect, and to get a different flavor of news or ideas than those to which we’d otherwise be exposed. That said, most material on blogs is pure drivel. Blog writers generally write for the chance to express themselves, and as folks on the whole have a generally low ratio of interesting things/thoughts to talk about versus mundane filling space things to talk about, thus the ratio of interesting or useful entries is low. Of course, some writers are better than others, and thus we can choose to bookmark them and avoid the rest so that WE don’t wade through the mire looking for the diamonds, but that doesn’t save the rest of the world from US as writers. Hey, I want to be thought of as insightful, as interesting - I don’t want to be one of those folks on the low end of the blogger totem pole. But I’m obviously not the best critic of my own entries…
So, how to solve it? How to protect my online reputation? Hire a ghost blog writer! Authors do it all the time - what famous person who’s written a book lately do you think really wrote all of their book? If they’re famous because they’re important, then generally their time is too well-filled to have the time to write a book! And so they hire a ghost writer to write the story they would have written, had they the time and the talent. The ghost writer shapes the story the person gives them, and crafts something better than would have otherwise emerged.
Blogs now being the source of our reputation on the web, ghost blog writers would solve the same purpose. A ghost blogger would take my snippets of ideas, ask me some pointed questions, and then mold an entry to be enjoyed by my breathless audience.
As the progenitor of this idea, I offer you the chance to apply for my ghost blogger position. Get in on the ground floor - the pay isn’t much (OK, it’s nothing), but you’ll be the first in on what’s sure to be a tidal wave of a trend. Be my online Ari Fleischer… and save me from inane entries such as this one.
1 comment July 16th, 2003