Tip to Blog Experts: Plant a Tree to Reduce Your Hot-Air Footprint
The main reason I went into blogging is because it leaves a very small carbon footprint. Unfortunately, many bloggers have decided to make careers on the speaking circuit as “blogging experts” — so many, in fact, that the greenhouse gases they emit during their fetid lectures (including carbon dioxide and, in at least some embarrassing cases, methane) have begun to threaten the blogosphere’s fragile ecosystem.
We know that pengins would catch fire and the planet would die if everyone in China had a car; that much is obvious. By the same token, can the Blue Marble survive the hot air generated simultaneously by thousands of bloggers who market themselves as experts, polluting the ether with BS-generated carbon?
Maybe we need a version of Todd’s Power 150 that awards marketing bloggers a rating representing the number of trees a given blogging expert must plant to compensate for the hot air he or she creates. Ad Age, if you want that idea, it’s all yours.
I like that thought. I had one similar to it when I was browsing alibaba for strange products from China. There I came across an exercise bike that generates electricity. The thought is, you only post or present after you’ve generated enough power to run your equipment. I think it might encourage brevity and fitness.
“We know that pengins [sic] would catch fire and the planet would die if everyone in China had a car…”
China has recently overtaken the US as the world’s worst polluter. In per capita terms, however, you guys are still the worst.
So, yep, you could be right. Get the so called ‘blog experts’ to plant some trees to cover their carbon breathprint.
Flummox — that is a brilliant idea.
Everyone wants to be an expert… and even more so in advertising and anything tech related that anyone can have access to. Quite honestly, few things can be as easy as maintaining a blog if you have the knack for writing. To be an expert on the matter would basically require you to read and write in our oh so beloved blogosphere and I for one am totally with you in turning a frown upside down and getting a positive result out of people’s squawking. On my side, I try to recycle, keep clean and pick up garbage because even if it’s a little shit I rant about on our oh so modest and ever so tiny bubble in the Blogworld, I’d rather do more than less. Great idea and lets hope it takes form.