Virtual ethics

Hi,

Having just signed on to start writing for The Compost Heap blog, I find myself with a blog site, and as a writer, how can I resist yet another virtual opportunity. Sometimes I think I should never have been taught to type - it's like being a concert pianist to me and I can do it for hours on end (with feeling!) I am, by trade, a professional writer BUT I am also a non-capitalist. Note not an ANTI-capitalist, but a non-capitalist. I'm trying to work out ways in which one can still live in a western capitalist market economy and NOT get sucked in. It's my greatest ethical dilemma and doubtless will form the backbone of many posts here.

Previously I've been kind of dubious about blogs - too many ignorant people venting too many ill-formed opinions, BUT my attitudes have been slightly changed over the last few months.

Since November I've been working on a diary (blog) called 40 years on. This is part of my website www.projectjam.co.uk which is a tribute site to Che Guevara, what with this being the 40th anniversary of his murder in Bolivia. Anyway, I set myself the task (among other things) of keeping a daily online journal to parallel the Bolivian Diary written by Che himself. My intention was to gain more information about world events. You can access that blog at the following link http://diary.projectjam.co.uk The site is keeping me pretty busy at the moment, but it has also opened my eyes to a lot of things which I feel NEED talking about.

So -what will I do with this blog? Hopefully I'll post up articles/comments on ethical issues of our day. We'll see. Forgive me for thinking this, but it seems like this is probably a better option than joining Second Life... I don't need to be an avatar thanks, I'm quite happy being me.

Check out my diary and website - Chapter 4 of my online novel is due to be posted on 2nd March!