Freedom Is Blogging In Your Underwear (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I give it one point for the only page I found remotely interesting, which states that the Internet is a revolution as profound as the Industrial revolution, the French revolution, the Russian revolution, and the Chinese revolution - but BETTER, since it lacks “the usual horrors of barricades being stormed, monarchs being decapitated, peasants starving by the millions.” Instead you get a lot of uploaded pictures of cats.Nothing else in this book sparked my interest; the cartoons were nearly all cliché, irrelevant, or disagreeable. The artwork is done in scribbly, amateur style.The writing made me guffaw. This book is made up primarily of “duh” information, such as ,”The internet is a miracle; everything you need to know and everybody you need to talk to are right there, a simple click away. No traveling thousands of miles to talk to somebody. No schlepping down to the library just to find something out. No not knowing where the good Chinese restaurants are. No having to get on the freeway in order to go buy something. It’s a miracle… it allows us to share knowledge, allows us to share learning - one of the most important forms of human interaction - faster and cheaper and easier than anything else that came before.”WOW, THANK YOU SO MUCH; I actually picked up a this book on blogging because I didn’t understand how the internet works, and now I never have to leave my house or read an actual book again, because I’ve finally found a more efficient way of living!Macleod actually begins a sentence (on page 102) with “Obviously,” and admits a few pages later, “Telling people how great the Internet is is easy. Everybody knows that already.” Soooooooooooo, this entire book could have been written by anybody and contains no new information. At least you admit it. Personally, I read books and look at art to gain new insight. As “an acclaimed cartoonist and blogger of gapingvoid.com”, I expected more from Hugh MacLeod. I like all of Hugh MacLeod's books, but this one my least favorite of his first three. His first two books ("How to Be Creative" and "Evil Plans") I DEVOURED. I rushed to buy them on the day they were released, and couldn't put them down until I'd read through them (twice!), and gave copies of them as gifts. That's a tough act to follow. There's nothing "wrong" with this book -- it is still Hugh's unique and illustrative insight into entrepreneurial inspiration -- I simply liked his other book better. Looking forward to book number FOUR!
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