Freedom Is Blogging in Your Underwear
Hugh MacLeod
- 26 april 2012
- 9781101571996
Samenvatting:
This is a book about freedom. Specifically the personal freedom I discovered from the wonderful world of blogging, the freedom I hope everybody will eventually discover for themselves. The freedom that, I believe, will permanently and irrevocably change the world for the better.
Having a blog, a voice, having my own media, utterly changed my life. Suddenly my career as a cartoonist wasn"t dependent on other people: "The Gatekeepers"—publishers, editors, Hollywood executives, etc., etc. Suddenly I had direct contact with my audience. They had direct contact with me. I could just do my thing, without having to wait for somebody else to give me the "green light." I didn"t have to wait around for somebody else to deem me "worthy."
This was the freedom I spent most of my adult life searching for, the same freedom I believe we"re ALL searching for, in one way or another. Careerwise, blogging gave me everything. Even in the early days, the benefits of blogging were so glaringly obvious to me, I couldn"t understand why more people weren"t doing it. Ten years later, I still can"t. So I decided to write a book about it; maybe I can help other people find this freedom, too.
—Hugh