Alan Gutierrez

I’d said that I’d write with a lighter touch, but it is too difficult.

I’ve read happy, mission driven business blogs. Web 2.0 marketoid auto-prose.

Culling them now. They make me quesy. Need to keep in mind that these are simply echoing opinions, put out there for the sake of traffic. Chicken soup for the covetous soul. Happy pap.

Better blogging will mean some bitter blogging on days like these.

Wedensdays that is. Every Wednesday is now Bitter Wednesday. I’ll be relentlessly upbeat in the meantimes. Wednesday is when I break my diet.

I’ll store my bile in drafts, and come Wednesday, publish in a peptic flurry.

Hugh MacLeod on Business Porn

Business Porn is just like Ordinary Porn or Real Estate Porn, except instead of it being about the women we wished we could sleep with, or the houses we wish we owned, it’s about all those cool, lucrative, exciting jobs and businesses that we wish we had, instead of the normal, tedious, schleppy crap most of us end up doing to pay the bills.

How many times have you seen a reporter say, “Shirley Tibedeaux, you’ve lost your home and you now have no health insurance. How do you feel?”

[response]

“There you have it, Jim. Now back to you.”

The term disaster porn coined by my friend Christian Roselund to describe Katrina journalism.

Like Hugh’s concept, except that it appeals to us in a way that is perfectly purient.

Rather than helping victims or understanding the complexity, we’re invited to share their emotions, from the comfort of our homes, feel their pain, and having done our part stay tuned for the sports roundup.