Politico-geek
| An intellectual geek, self-confessed nerd, soon-to-be online-marketing-success-story, professional blogger and family man; David Risley could quite easily be described as Tampa’s “Mr Tech”.
“David Risley is an internet entrepreneur and professional technology blogger. With about 10 years of experience in this field, David has a solid and practical understanding of the web and what works. He is the founder and President of PC Media, Inc., a Tampa-Bay based company active in internet media publishing. |
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| Recently, in an entry posted 15th July 2008 to be exact, he posted what appears to be a one-off foray into politics. http://www.davidrisley.com/2008/07/15/bloggers-for-obama-lemmings-for-something-shiny/
Using his excellent flowingly-articulate writing-style he managed to keep the coverage to as level a playing-field as possible, showing very little if any of his personal political preference, yet still succeeding in giving the mass-ranks of pro-Obama bloggers a flea in the ear for their one-sided biased coverage of Barack Obama’s political campaign.
Did David really keep the playing field level though, and did he, a professional tech blogger, inadvertently take a step into territory where the nerd-angels fear to tread? His second paragraph starts off:”We’re in the election season and that means we’re seeing lots of politics online. Since I follow social media, I can clearly [tell] which of the candidates seems to be the favorite of the blogosphere: Barack Obama.” |
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| OK so much for proof-reading; but ignoring an honest accidental mistake in leaving a single word out; does the above indicate any political preference or bias? It could be loosely construed if this passage is taken by itself ignoring the rest of the article that by his mention only of Obama he sets a biased tone for the underlying theme.
However in reality we have to take the post as a whole and analyse the bigger picture.Further down he shows a more balanced approach when inculcating both candidates. : He states:”I have no doubt Barack Obama is a good man. I have no reason not to like him. But, when I see bloggers so blindly vouch for the guy, and so eagerly blame Bush for anything and everything and find every possible fault in John McCain…” Is this really balanced though, or does it have a supportive slant for McCain? By itself perhaps; although once again we must look at the bigger picture. Let’s do just that from a statistical point of view:- Mentioning of Candidates Obama: 7 mentions McCain: 1 mention Can any conclusion be drawn from this? I wouldn’t say so despite the repeated mentions of Obama: After all; that is part of the overall theme: Bloggers’ documentation of Obama’s campaign in exclusion of and to the detriment of, McCain’s.
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| Overall it appears that David Risley has done an extremely good job of maintaining a viewpoint of neutrality despite his political convictions while covering this topic: An achievement which is rather commendable.What are David Risley’s political convictions? I have no idea honestly; and even if I did know this, the fact that I revealed them in this article of mine would lead to a distortedly-biased view of his words by the readers.
He concludes with the words:”I’m not a political blogger and I’m not going to start. I follow tech, not politics. But, as a professional blogger who wants to see blogging recognized as the profession it is, I do not want to see bloggers as a whole turn into blind lapdogs for the latest shiny political figure…”
- All-in-all a quick dip into the edges of the political quagmire out of partial-necessity using the correct safety-harness and coming out completely unscathed. This demonstrates resilience and the mark of a talented writer: There aren’t a lot of bloggers out there that could even do this; let alone in such a manner. If I were running a “Blogger of the Month Award” then I feel that this post would be a very strong front runner at this time, and could easily end up winning first prize. |
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We Shall Overcome.
2009 is upon us; and it seems that the planet’s economy has got into a total mess. Human greed and irresponsibility had become almost boundless. So much so in fact that the bubble stretched the fabric so much that it burst.
Now we’re paying the price; and, as the juice continues to drain from the shrinking collapsing bubble, we find that the channels of plenty are no longer such; but rather empty tunnels containing just a void of debt.
Unless we fill the space with something, those empty tunnels will eventually begin to collapse under their force of the weight from the realms above; bringing our visible economic structures down in full view of the entire world.
In truth the current political structure is clueless and the people that they are supposed to be looking after are just as clueless and still as greedy and irresponsible as ever, as well as being terrified by the scaremongering news media who profiteer from the misery of others and their own prophecies of doom.
Rise above you people who want to succeed: Those that don’t will stay as couch-potatoes, wannabees, and hasbeens. Only those of us who actively evolve and progress decisively and with a positive determination will overcome the current situations and come out of it all smelling of clover.
Girls With brains; in my experience something men both adore and loathe with a passion to whatever extent; hopefully in a balanced way so that the adoration and the loathing cancel one another out.
Yes I am referring to myself and no I do not consider myself a genius nor am I such: However I do intend to use the rest of this page for the purpose of blowing my own trumpet as well as to have a few toots on my own saxaphone too. Please understand that this is primarily for your information should you wish to know it.
I have an IQ of 143 as tested by British Mensa; which is unfortunately for me a single point too low for membership of British Mensa, but which is also equal to or higher than 97% of the planet’s population’s respective IQ scores on average. I have a good technical and scientific understanding; partially to do with my peculiar upbringing (A long, usually boring, and sometimes unpleasant story; which I don’t intend to dwell upon herein.) and partially seeming to run in my family. I wouldn’t say I’m full of myself but I do prefer my own company most of the time. I’m quite materialistic and I see things in financial value as well as in any other value that they may have; all aspects of these two factors go to make up their total worth to my mind.
Despite having a technical flare I’m also rather artistic: A combination which causes a conflict of interests at times; ocurring more on the technical side than the artistic side of me - That’s probably part of the reason I’m not a fully-qualified engineer on the technical side nor a professional artist on the artistic side. I am one of those people who require a round tuit in my posession at all times. I do actually posess one somewhere, but I somehow become seperated from it rather too often and tend to prefer to leave things on hold until I get around to it again if I possibly can and the situation’s not a priority or urgent.
To date I’ve been concentrating mainly on a technical slant with regard to this blog as you may notice; although you can expect it to turn either way, technical or artistic, at any given point, and maybe even go off at a tangent. I’m aware that I’ve directed the “Kustom Komputa blog” link to this particular blog for the time being, despite the fact that it has, to date, very little to do with Kustom Komputa. Things are in hand in this regard however, and a blog is awaiting input at kustomkomputa.com upon my reacquisition of my round tuit; until which time I will beg forgiveness for only having a single pair of hands and less than 48 hours in each day, in which to get all the things I’d like to get done, done.
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