So there’s been quite a buzz recently about Philadelphia’s pursuit of bloggers in an effort to collect a “$300 tax.” Like most controversies surrounding social media, there’s some truth but plenty of hyperbole.
From the headlines, one might get the impression that the city has imposed a new tax on bloggers. Not true. One might then assume that the city is pursuing just bloggers for this tax. Not true.
Now, this doesn’t make the tax any better. Or the facts any less silly. But we need to — once again — knock the chip off the shoulder of the blogosphere.
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Over the course of the past year, my schedule has been such that I have not been able to consume social media in the same regular, obsessive way that I used to. I have become, I suspect, more like a typical information consumer, if such a thing exists. I sample information from my favorite traditional and social media web sites as time permits. Some days I may be able to devote a couple of hours, while at other times I may go a couple of days without going beyond a handful of core information sources.
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Upon Further Review Let’s Have a Booth Umpire for Baseball
June 6, 2010I was just two years old when Larry Barnett served as the home plate umpire of Game 3 of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. Needless to say, I have no contemporaneous memory of the game, but I came to learn as a young boy that he had made a controversial non-call in that game that many believe cost the Red Sox a victory.