Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter

Yes, liberal progressive tree-hugger that I am…

I love blogging - it’s been great for me and my business. But, the “big media” has been having conniptions about bloggers (and also web sites). Many write blogging is a fad, that there is no substitute for “real” journalism, etc. etc. etc. Oh please. Catch up, people. There’s TONS of opportunity for everyone to play in today’s always on, always connected world. New audiences, new technologies, new connections.

And, I don’t think dead trees will ever go out of fashion. (Even Captain Picard had old books he cherished.)

I can’t sit under the backyard apple tree and read my computer. (Yeah, I know - PDAs, notebooks…bla-blahh…it just ain’t the same and it’s uncomfortable and unfun to lay on my back and read a screen.)

I can’t feel the pages of an electronic book.

I can’t read the sidebar scribbles of a previous reader in the margins of a web page. On-line comments don’t come close to the spidery fading handwriting from - say - 1908.

I can’t spread out the electronic Sunday Times all over my den floor.

So, this evening, I’ll be pouring the Friday ‘tooni and relaxing with a big pile of magazines and cookbooks.

Have a great weekend!

Read more: The end of civilization as we know it. - in which John Carlton talks about media’s fear of the Web…and ad agencies’ cluelessness re the same.

All my Friday Martini Time posts

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