On November 15th, 2007, members of the Blogger's Guild of America went on strike... and which I think led to this class-action Huffington Post Lawsuit started by Jonathan Tasini. For years bloggers have been writing nothing for nothing... and since the days of the Blogger's Guild strike, things haven't changed one bit. No one can say that they didn't see this coming... if people were more united the lawsuit would not have been thrown out. It is time for freelance-writers of America to get paid! No more "free-lunch"
...we want to be called PAID-lance writers from now on!
On November 15th, 2007, members of the Blogger's Guild of America went on strike...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLR4OJb5s..."The Huffington Post's lawyers have urged a New York City judge to dismiss Jonathan Tasini's lawsuit filed on behalf of unpaid bloggers on the site. The filing argued that "no rule of statutory or common law, in New York or elsewhere, recognizes such a remarkable and unwarranted intrusion into the relationship between publishers and contributors." In April, Tasini (pictured, via) filed a class action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post and AOL. The suit includes an estimated 9,000 unpaid bloggers and seeks damages of at least $105 million."
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/huf...Huffington Post Lawsuit - $ For Bloggers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxBHcDjGt...Who isn't tired of reporters getting paid, for what we do for free? We slant the News, we spin the stories with a new twist, we leave out boring details just like them... we even have those here at Rant/Rave that say Democrats are people too! Maybe it is time for us to unionize and pay someone to organize us back into the Blogger's Guild of America; where Canadians didn't have to divulge their true citizenship... and Iranians weren't profiled by dropped participles. I say Google is the culprit, all that information at the push of a key-stroke... they are the ones that have addicted us to the notion, that we don't need to be paid for our freedoms... well I say enough!
I say we all demand... very nicely with lots of begging... to get our own donate/sale buttons from Pay Pal for our homepages... that way we can tap into that CONSERVATIVE market out there that pays people to write. We have such talented writers at RR that have experience in teaching and marketing... why they can be paid to do homework for students, or just sell slogans to sloughers! We can do politics to honesty... just give us a chance. IF you are a blogger and or writer... sign-up to Rant/Rave and let the world know it; if you are already that tuned-in give us your solution to a bloggers strike!
[BTW, posts at RR are usually published to Google's first page top-spot within 24 hrs]
AAAAnd if you run into TCG... he'll have you so twitter'd you won't know what happened!
That's a freedom... we all want to be paid for !:]