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I think we all suspected this was going on. I know whenever I write about the nuclear power industry, they appear like sharks.
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There’s a lot of syndicated content posted today. No, I don’t make any money off their ads, but I do make money off my own ads if more people read the site. (Please turn off your adblocker for this site.) But that’s not really the point.
The point is, my hands and arms hurt.
Every day, I pick out news stories I think are interesting, infuriating and/or informative. My comments are frequently minimal. The difference is, with the syndicated stuff, I don’t have to cut and paste everything. It does it automatically. (It’s the cutting and pasting that really kills me.) Plus, it adds art, which makes things look better.
So no, I’m not turning into the Huffington Post. I’m still looking for good stories, and the more familiar I become with the syndicate, the better the material I’ll find.
And I’ll still be adding my own posts to the mix. (Writing doesn’t bother my hands so much. It’s the cut and paste that does it.)
I was just looking through some of the earliest stories I wrote over at C&L about Fukushima, and I’d forgotten just how vicious the attacks were from many of the commenters. They said I was hysterical, exaggerating and outright lying. Their main beef seemed to be that I didn’t have an engineering degree, so nothing I said could possibly be right. (Wish I had a dollar for every one of those commenters!)
It’s true that I don’t have an engineering degree, but I do have a good nose for the smell of official bullshit.
Nice piece about Marcy in Newsweek. I had dinner with her a few weeks ago when she was in town, and it was as always a pleasure.
Bloggers wade into the shit on your behalf. Unless you do it yourself, you don’t understand what it does to be steeped in excrement all the time. You just can’t imagine it. Your brain never shuts off, you’re always scanning and always trying to calculate what’s going on. Then you have to write about it.
There’s an effect on the psyche, too. A slow-simmering cynicism that extends to the rest of the world, an impatience with those who (through no real fault of their own, because who has time to dig up all this crap?) have deeply uninformed opinions. I literally cannot listen to those people anymore — which makes it difficult to socialize.
This is why I no longer feel reticent about asking you to support this blog. It’s disgusting, depressing work. Any contributions are greatly appreciated, because at least I can pay the bills while I do it.
