Blogs VS. Reality TV.

Hi there,

For a few days now, I have been wondering about a possible link between the huge numbers of blogs on the web, and the popularity of reality TV shows...
Could we find a nearly filial relationship between the two medium?

Are most of personal blogs just a cheap and maybe more direct, less edited and prepped  experience than Survivor, X Factor, Big Brother, Tool Academy, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and other?
Is this what makes the success of today's blog phenomenon?

From a very long time people have been writing personal diary, but since how long have they been willing to share out these diary with who ever want to read them?
With very little control on the potential or actual readers, yet still being excited by personal rating in terms of visitors, followers and comments.

Some blogs are very personal and describe some very private thoughts or situation, and would in very recent times have been seen as either exhibitionism or breach of privacy.
Are personal blogs another chip taken from the mantle of privacy?
Or are blogs authors always in control of what is written and shown on the different blogs to be found out there?

Is having a successful blog a way for the commoner, to attain a semblance of fame aspired by so many in our celebrity driven society?

Certainly I do not have the answers for all of these questions. But this is some of the things that keep my brain busy lately...
I am sure that someone must have done a PhD on the topic, I would be interested to read about it.

In fact it is a bit like life, so many question, an so few certitude...

But hey, it could be worse.
Have a good day,
Me.

The unicycle...

Hi there,

Yes I do practice the noble art of unicycle ridding...
Or to be more honest I should say, that for a very long time I have tried not to fall once perched on the machine...

Practice make perfect they said...

I have this unicycle for nearly ten years now.

At the time I kept saying to my partner that I truly believed that this was the best transportation system for a big city.

It keep you fit, it is faster than walking, you can take it in an elevator, shop, office or where ever you want to. No really I believed that, they look so easy to ride...

So she got me one for my birthday...

Very excited I tried it, and was quickly shown why it is not the most popular device on the planet...

It is hard, pretty hard to do.

So I more or less left it at that for many years.

Then last year talking with a friend she told me that she loved to ride her unicycle...

So I quickly jumped on the occasion and asked her if she wanted to be my teacher so I can ride mine.

And I was back into it...

I have a lesson every week, along the Nightcliff jetty as it is a very convenient place to train. And I can even see some people fishing while I practice.

And despite the regular falls, I am sure that one day I will be able to do it properly.

But I still love it and would still argue that it could be one of the most efficient locomotion apparatus in big cities where parking is always an issue. 

It does keep you fit, if you ride on a regular basis you will have some abs and legs made of steel.

It is fast and doesn't require to much storage room.

Imagine Amsterdam full of unicycle instead of bicycles...

So yes, I am far from the perfect ridder, and very often my legs hurts a bite and feel stiff after the practice. And some people must think terrible things of me when they see me ridding this thing on the jetty... And my progress on it are slow and laborious... And I can't yet ride it to go to the corner shop to buy some milk...

But hey, it could be worse.

Have a good day,

Me.

The photo in this post is copyrighted by Peter Zeroni 2010.

Why why why?...

Hi there,

Why do I like fishing so much?

The NightCliff jetty at sun rise.

Well, this is one of the very few places and instances where I can really empty my head of every things else, the water edge, and focus entirely on the task at hand.
A bit like in my work, but without the stress, pressure or politics of work.
And I am part of the lucky ones who really enjoy their job...

Fishing to me is like being a kid the night before Christmas again.
All the anticipation of maybe getting the big one.
And not getting it most of the times, which makes you want to come back to get it the following time.

Also, even if some of the fishing gears might seems a bit dear in the first place, it is still cheaper than going clubbing all night long in a club full of cigarette smoke.
And sometime you come back home with a feed.
Sometime, is the keyword here...

But yes it is more healthy than some other hobbies, cheaper than some and it is outdoors.
That is also one of the things I like about it.
All the wildlife that I get to see. The fishes of course, but in my part of the world, also dugongs, birds, turtles, dolphins, dingoes, crocodiles, Manta rays, and so many others.
For a guy like me who comes from the city, it is like the discovery channel, except that I am in it.

Basically, most of the times I come back refresh, happy, with some new memories.

But often sunburn and not with a fish every times...

But hey, it could be worse.
Have a good day,
Me.