Blogosphère solidaire

Pour montrer leur solidarité envers leurs scénaristes préférés, les lecteurs de la blogueuse américaine Jane Espenson (Buffy, Battlestar) et ceux du blogue Whedonesque, sont allés rencontrer les scribes sur la ligne de piquettage à Hollywood. Ils leur ont même livré de la pizza avec un message:

You fed our minds. We would like to return the favor. Your fans support the writers’ strike.

Je ne suis pas en grève, mais faudrait que je pense à rendre mon adresse publique, au cas où quelqu’un aurait envie, juste comme ça, de m’envoyer du chocolat…

On m’a demandé à plusieurs reprises dans les derniers jours en quoi cette grève des scénaristes américains affectait les scénaristes canadiens. La réponse nous est parvenue par courriel hier, de la part de la WGC (Writers Guild of Canada), dont je suis membre. (Mes contrats en français sont cependant signés sous la bannière de la SARTEC.)

WGC President Rebecca Schechter and Executive Director Maureen Parker attended the WGA bargaining in Los Angeles last week and witnessed first hand the complete disregard of our colleagues’ bargaining issues by the AMPTP. As a sister guild and fellow member of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds we will support the Writers Guild of America during its strike to the fullest extent possible. The issues the WGA is addressing will affect every professional artist seeking compensation for their work in the digital age. Their fight is our fight.

Le reste du texte est ici, en format pdf. Le soutien est d’ordre moral pour l’instant, mais les Canadiens savent bien qu’ils auront à négocier eux aussi un jour… Pour bien suivre le conflit américain de notre point de vue de la frontière, je vous recommande le blogue du scénariste Denis McGrath.

Et puis il y a Ze Frank qui se prononce sur la question. Tordant et mordant.

The acceptable face of blogging

From BBC news, this gem:

Facebook is the acceptable face of blogging – you can reflect your life and personality online without being seen as a « blogger », which often carries a geeky stigma.

There are quite a few things wrong with this statement. First of all, I don’t think there is such a thing as a geeky stigma anymore. If any person looks at your blog and says to you « oh, you are so geeky for having a blog », trust me, it will feel like a compliment (especially coming from that person).

And not every personal space on the Web is a blog. Facebook has attracted a lot of ex-bloggers (and bloggers) because it is less demanding and perhaps, to some people, more entertaining than a blog. They can keep in touch with their network of friends (a lot of them who were never tempted to read blogs before) and have fun with silly applications (drinks! zombies! pokes!) without the weight of responsibilities and the occasional bout of loneliness and introspection that come with a blog.

My web was organic and I want it that way again.

We use these tools and promote them to our friends because we can express ourselves and create networks but I always thought networks were the tools to reach friends and colleagues. More and more it seems like the network is just that, the network. You’re not reaching friends, you’re reaching network units. You are not “friending” people you want to know and interact with, you’re “friending” viewers. You are not “a” media in the sense that you are your own means of distributing your thoughts and interests, you are “the” media, a money grabbing, self interested, profiteering, people using media like the ones you claimed you wanted to take down.

Great post from Patrick. I’m not saying more about it because everything is there. Go read it on his blog.

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